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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-21

ALARM OF FIRE. accidental
burning out of the chimney attached
to the law Office of John T. Rhett,
Esq, caused an alarm of fire, yester-
day morning. The Independents
were out in q hurry, but their ser.
vices were not required.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25
The Size of the Ark.

lnhdels have objected to the size of the
Ark have asserted that it is quite absurd
to suppose that ever there could be YES
sci constructed large enough to hold all
the creatures which must have been plac-
ed In 1t, with sufficient food, it may be
Tor SIX or twelve months-water for the
fish, corn and so on. Now we viii take the
dimensions of the ark from the records
of Moses, and calculate them on the low
est possible scale. There are two defini-
tlons given to cubit one that it is Is
inches or foot and half, and the other
that it is 80 inches. We still take it only
at the lowest Moses states that the ark
was 500 cubits long this would make il
$50 feet long. or about the length of St.
Paul's Cathedral, in London The breadth
he states to be so cubits; we then
have it rs feet in breadth. He states it
to be 30 cubits high so that it was As
feet high. In other words, it was as long
as st. PauPs Cathedral, nearly as broad
and half as high The tonnage of the
ark, according to computation of modern
carpenters, must have been 33 900 tons.
The largest English ship, (ofa size un-
imaginable to those who have never seen
it, is $500 tons burthen so that the ark
must have been equal to 27 first rate ships
of war, and if armed as such ships, are, it
would have contained beyond 10000 men
and provisions for them IS months. Buf.
fon asserted, that all four footed animals
may be reduced to $50 pairs, and the
birds to still smaller number. On cal
culatinU therefora we shall find tbot tho
ark would have held more than five times
the necessary number of creatures, and
more than FIVE times the required quanti-
ty Of food to maintain them twelve
months.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25
Bows Using Tobacco

\ strong and sensible writer says a
good sharp thing, and true one, too,
for boys who use tobacco. "It has ut
terly spoiled and utterly ruined thousands
of boys. 1t tends to the softening and
weakening of the bones, and it gently iu-
jures the brain, the spinal marrow, and
the whole nervous fluid. a boy who
smokes early and frequently, or in any
way uses large quantities Of tobacco, is
never known to make a man of much en-.
ergy, generally lacks muscular and phys
ical, as well as mental power We would
particularly warn boys, who want to be
any thing in the world, to shun tobacco -
The laws of health are infallible; the
relation between transgression and the
penalty is invariable, and the iuniction ol
the latter is certain to follow upon the
former. There is nothing about which
young persons are more beguiled aud de
.luded, than the belief that they can
transgress natural laws and jump the
penalty. Punishment for violation o.
natural law is just as certain as that the
sun itself shines, and one cannot violate a
law of his body, or any part of it, that
there is not registered in him penalty
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25
Economical White House Painting.

Skim milk, two quarts; fresh Stacked
lime, eight ounces; linseed oil, six ounces
white Burgundy pitch, two ounces; Span
ish white, three pounds. The limo to be
Stacked in water, exposed to the air; mix
cd in about one fourth of the milk the
oil in which the pitch is previously dis
solved to be little at time; then the
rest of the milk, and afterwards the Spa
nish white. This quantity is sufficient Tor
twenty square yards, two coats and
the expense Is not more. than forty cents
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25
A Colt with q Human Face.

\ colt with human face is the latest
sensation in Lewis county, N. Y. Says
the American"
We learn that large gray mare be-
longing to Robert Harrison, farmer re-
siding about five miles west of La Grange.
gave birth to colt, few days since,
having face strangely resembling the
human features divine. In every other
part except the head it is not unlike any
other young colt, and may be considered
well formed up to lis cars, where the hu-
man-like face begins. The eyes are
smaller than usual and very expressive :,
the nose is fat; the nostrils are thin, the
nose having only ridge through its CEN
tre. The mouth, lips, and chin are mo-
delled after the human form, and are
quite perfect. The colt has no teeth,
which is unusual, and it cannot obtain its
nourishment from the mother, but is fed
milk with spoon. It's breathing seems
difficult and hard, and it is not very ac-
tive, being 10th to stand upon its feet.
We have given this account from the de-
scription furnished us by gentleman
who saw the colt on Tuesday afternoon,
and numbers of our citizens are going out
to see it every day. 1t is thought that
it will not live, but if it should, arrange
ments will be made to exhibit it over the
country.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25
NO. Is.
Case Of Suspended Animation.

The Cleveland (Ohio) {" PlaindeaIer {"
tells the following remarkable story of a
case which it says happened in that city
Some SIX weeks ago Miss Ellen r.
W bite was taken i'll by what was regard
ed by her physicians as typhoid fever
For four weeks her condition alternated
from better to worse, when about sye'
weeks since she had severe relapse,
sinking gradually until it was thought
that she had died, and she was pronounc-
ed dead by her physicians, her mother
alone refusing to believe her dead. Pre-
parations were made for her funeral, the
mother all the time insisting that her
daughter was alive She was to have
been buried on Sunday last, and her
narrow escape from the gave rs thus, re-
lated: On Saturday, while one of the
nelshbors and the mother were standing
by the side of the supposed corpse, the
door, which had been left open, blew
shut with loud noise, which had the
effect of so acting upon the girl as to bring
her to and bring her life blood in motion.
She sprang up in bed and throwing her
arms around her mothers neck went
tears of joy over her escape from tho
horrid death of being buried alive. The,
young lady described her feelings during
the trance, from which il appears she
fully realized all that was going on, but,
her will was powerless. Her situation
appears to have been one of perfect hap
Finess except when the thought of being
buried alive possessed her.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25
The Curing Of Green Hides.

A great many butchers, wool dealers,
etc, are purchasers Of the hides of the
beef in the country towns, and we often
get from them inquiries as to the most
proper and profitable method of curing
the hide and preparing it for the market.
A great many butchers do not use proper,
care in this branch, and the consequence
is that the hides will not pass city inspec-
ton, owing entirely to the ignorance and
carelessness of persons preparing them
for market. The proper way to salt
hides, is to lay them out fat, flesh side
up, and form nearly square bed, say
twelve by fifteen feet, folding in the
edges so as to make them as nearly solid
as possible. Split the ear in the cords
that run up the ear in each one, so as to
make them lie out fat. Sprinkle the
hide with two or three shovel fulls os
coarse salt, as the size may require = say,
for sixty to eighty pound hide, from ten
TO fifteen pounds of salt. At any rate
cover the hides well, as it need not be
wasted; and let them lie in this from
twelve to twenty days, after which take
them up, shake the salt out and use it
again. = Shoe and Leather Reporter.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25
Chief Justice Chase on the Situation.

N~~N~NO
The following confidential letter from
Chief Justice Chase to a personal friend
has just been published:
WASHINGTON, May %, 1868. : My
Dear Sir: You are>right in believing
that | "shall never abandon the great
principles for TIE success of which
have given my entire life" | adhere to
my " old creed of equal rights" without
one jot or title of abatement / shall be
glad if the new professors of that creed
adhere to it as faithfully.
am amazed by the torrent of inyec-
tives by which | am drenched Almost
every thing alleged as fact is falsehood
out of the whole cloth. Where an allie
CATION has little fact in it the fact is so
perverted and trayestied that it becomes
falsehood. | know no motive for all this
except disappointment that impeachment
has not thus far proved success, coup
led with belief that | have done some
thing to prevent its being success. |
have not been a partisan of impeachment
certainly; but | have not been a parti-
san on the other side. AS presiding Of
ficer over the trial, my conscience testiGes
that [ have been strictly impartial; and
am sure that any one who reads the re-
port will say so. Individually / have my
convictions and opinions, but | have very
seldom given utterance to them. Indeed,
[ do not think that the case, in any of
the aspects, has been the subject of con-
versation between myself and more than
four or five Senators, and then only casu-
ally and briefly. No Senator will say
that sought to influence him.
The real ground of denunciation is that
have not been partisan of conviction /;
and this denunciation am willing to bear
They may denounce and abuse me and
read me out of the party if they choose.
| follow the old light, not the new.
What the developments of the future
may be / know not ] neither expect
nor desire to be a candidate for Office
again. 1t would, however, crafty me
exceedingly if the Democratic party
would take ground which would assure
the party against all attempts TO subvert
the principle of universal suffrage estab-
lished in eight, and to be established in
all the Southern constitutions. Then,
think, the future of the great cause =
for which have labored so long = would
be secure, and l should not regret my alb
sence from political labors.
SALMON =. CHASE.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25
A Home Thrust.

A clergyman who enjoys the substan-
tial benefits of a fine farm was slightly
taken down a few days ago by his Irish
plowman, who was sitting at his plow in
a field, resting his horse. The reverend
gentleman, being an economist, said, with
great seriousness: aaf
"John, wouldn't it be good plan for
you to have stub scythe here and be
cutting few bushes along the fence
while the horse is resting short timer
John, with quite as serious a counte-
nance as the divine wore himself said
+" Wouldn't it be well, sir, for you to have
tub of potatoes in the pulpit, and when
they are singing, to peel 'cm awhile to be
ready for the pot?"
The reverend gentlemen laughed heart
ily aud left,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25
A most extraordinary sea monster

\ most extraordinary sea monster, a
regular ringed, streaked, aud striped de-
vii fish, was captured in Charleston har-
Dor on Friday, by some colorcd fisher
men, near the wreck of the gunboat
Housatonic. One of the men, feeling
bite, thought he would play his fish a
while, and then draw it in; but to his
terror and dismay, and that of his brother
fishermen, huge monster, such as they
had never before seen, leaped into the
boat, and was so savage that they wero
compelled to kill it in self defence. 1t
was nine feet four inches in length, and
FIVE feet ten inches in breadth, had a
square head, with large square eyes, and
was spotted on the back, with white
belly.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25
Discovery of Letter Purporting to be
Written by Jesus Christ.

The San Francisco " Bulletin" of the
11th of May, says one T. Wilson has ap-
piled to the United States District Court
of California, for copyright of a letter
said to have been written by Jesus Christ,
and found sixty five years after His cru
cifxion, about eighty miles from Iconium
1t is said the letter was found under a
stone, on the face Of which was written,
" Blessed is he that shall turn me over"
a" All people that saw it prayed to God
earnestly, and desired that He would
make known to them the meaning of this
writing, that they might not attempt in
vain to turn it over. In the meantime,
came little child and turned it over
without help, to the admiration of all
the people that stood by; and under this
stone was found a letter written by Jesus
Christ, which was carried to Iconium,
and there published; and in it was writ
ten the Commandments, signed by the
Angel Gabriel, ninety eight years after
our Saviors birth, to which is added
King Abarus'S letter and our Savior 5
answer, and also His miracles, and full
description of His person, in Sentulus's s
epistle to the Senate of Rome" Exca-
vations are also said to have brought to
light, in Syria, Hebrew House, dating
from about the second century before
Christ Some of the rooms are in good
preservation, and among the books found
is a collection of Hebrew poems, said to
be unknown to present Orientals.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25
An Ant Tran.

As the season is now at hand for these
pests, the ants, housewives and others
who arc troubled with them may probably
use the following trap to alvantage:- -
Procure large sponge, wash it well, press
it dry, which will leave the cells quito
orcn; then sprinkle over it some fine
white sugar, and place it where the ants
are troublesome. They will soon collect
upon the sponge and take up their abodes
ia the cells 1t is only necessary to dip
the sponge in scalding hot water which
will wash them out dead Put on more
sugar and set the trap for new haul
this process will soon clear ,hs house os
every aut
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25

So, boys! final bumper,
While we all-in chorus chant -
Fer next President we nominate
Our own Ulysses Grant,"
And if asked what State he halls from,
This our sole reply shall be,
From near Appomattox Court-House,
With its famous apple-tree!"
For twas there to our Ulysses
That Lee gave up the fight
Now, boys, "To Grant for President
And God defend the right"
MILES OREILLY.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25

committee on biography will reconcil EN-.
1t may be that he may bev done to much
I-wich is to say, eff all he sez is troo, he
wood be two or three hun dred years old
If so, it will hev to be pared down. He
hez him justis of the peece ten years in
his native township, wich gives him a
splendid knowledge of constitooshel law
5. He's trooly nashnel in his views
He knows no north, no south, no east, no
west no nothin. That last quaifcashen
mite prejudis some agin him, but to me
its his eheef holt. For with such man
in the Presidenshel chair l wood be safe.
We hev an abundance of sich men ez
Wood, Seymour, Valiandygum, ct set
try, who kin manage President, but
who are too odorous to be elected very
much to that posishen themselves
Therefore, its necessary that precisely
sich man ez hcv described be elected;
and the fact that Chase knows too much
is the objecshen | hev to him. Polk
wuz manageable, Peerce eminently so,
and poor old Bookannon was wonderfully
pliable.
Sich is the candidate wich present.
There are many pints in his favor. Our
people wood to-wunst exclaim, "Who'n
thunder is Kippins2 p and before they
Good fined out the day Nv election wood
be on em, and they'd vote him His hev-
In no record is olso in his favor. Wat
wood Pendleton, Vallondygum, Seyour,
and Wood give eff they he'd no record I?
A record is like tin kittle to dogs tale
its noisy appendage wich makes the
dog conspicuous, and invites evrybody to
shy brick at him.
| haven't menshuned in this, nor shell
|, who wood be proper man for the
seckund place on the ticket. | hev my
opinyum Kentuckey is deservin recog-
nishun-that's all shell say. The mod
esty which is characteristic Nv ME prevents
me from segestin the partickeler citizen
Nv Kentuckey who ought to be thus
honored. We shell see wether or not
republics is orgrateful.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, p. NJ,
(Which is postmaster.)
Z. S.-The fact that Jethro J.. Kip
pins holds my rote fJr Sl86 63 With interest
for two yeras, hez no infooeuce in my
segestin his name. am inflooenced by
no merC eaary considerashuns.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25
Something Pithy.

Four gentlemen "A Baptist, Presby-
terian, Methodist and Roman Cotholic =
met by agreement to dine on fish. Soon
as grace was said, the Catholic armed
with knife and fork, and taking about
one third of the fish, omprehending the
head, removed it to his plate, exclaiming
as he sat down with great dissatisfaction
= Papa est cdpM ecclestae: the Pope is
the head of the church. Immediately
the Methodist arose, and helping himself
to about onc-third, embracing the tail,
seated himself, saying: Fihis cosonat
opus: the end crowns the work. The
Presbyterian now thought 1t about time
for him to move, and taking the remain
der of The firsh to his plate exclaimed !:
In Diedid est ueritaS: truth lies between
the two extremes. Our Bahtist friend
had nothing before lin but empty plate,
aud the prospect of slim dinner; and
snatching up the bowl of melted butter,
he dashed it over them all, cxelaiminS !;
Ego Joptiso ros: baptize you all.
The cherry t.lop will he a failure ~ Fa
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25
j. LANTZ, DENTIST

A- Has permanently located him
fYffA self IN Stroudsburg, and moved
1bhis Office next dooI 70 DIR. 5.
Walton. where he is fully prepared to treat
the natural teeth, and also to insert lncorrup-
tibie artificial teeth on pivot and plate, in tqe
latest and most improved manner. Most
persons know the danger and folly of trust
ing their work to the ignorant as well as
the travelling dentist. 1t matters not how
much experience person may have, he is
liable to have soLle failures out of q number
Of cases, and if the dentist lives at q distance
4 is frequently put off until it is too late to
gave the tooth or teeth as it NAV be, other
yise the inconvenience and trouble Of going
40 far. Hence the necessity Of obtaining the
aervices of a dentist near home, All work
Sarranted.
Stroudsburg, March 81, 1852,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25

hONT FORGET that when
- you want any thing in the Furniture
CT Ornamental line that McCarty. in the
odd-Eeliows' Hall, Main Street, SIouds-
eafs, Pa ls the place 10 get il. [Scn'. 26.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25

The Democratic Candidate for the Pres
idency-Mr. Nasty Hoists the Name
Of a Democrat of his acquaintance al
Southern Illinois.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25

The cherry clor Willie a failure IL Pa
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-06-25

z. S.-The fact that Jethro i. Kip
pins holds my rote fJr SlS.63 With interest
for two yeras, hez no infooeuce in my
segestin his name. | am inhooenced by
no mere eaary considerashuns.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-01-10
Thanks TO Hancock.

The following is the resolution, not yet
acted upon introduced in the House of Re.
personalities by Mr.. Boyer, of Pennsylvania
in accordance with the recommendation Of
the President:
"Whereas, 1t has been officially, announced
to Congress by the President of the United
States that an order was issued by Major
General Winfield S. Hancock, commander
of the fifth military district, dated heaaqi,ar
tiers in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the 29th
day of November ult. In which General
Hancock announces that he will make the
law the rule Of his conduct; that he will up.
hold the courts and other civil authorities in
the performance Of their proper duties; that
he will use his military power only to pre-
serve the peace and enforce the law; that the
sacred right of trial by jury, and the privil.
ege of the writ of hdbeas corpus, shall not be
crushed out or lrodden under foot, and that
the principles Of American liberty are still
the inheritance of this people, and ever
should be; therefore, 20 a
Resolved (by the Hopse of Representatives
of the United States, the Senate concurring J
That the thanks of Congress are hereby ten
dered to General Hancock for the patriotic
example of duty he has set, and for bis time
" Wind cation of the supremacy Of the civil
law as guaranteed by the constitution in the
United States.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-01-10
THE FENIANS.

Gen. John o Neil, the leader of the Fenians
in the battle of Limestone Ridge, Canada,
and formerly citizen of Nashville, is now
President of the Fenian orgs nzation. He
says in the course of long proclamation
by 'order OF the Senate of the Fenian
Brotherhood:
sin the name, therefore, Of the Fenian
Brotherhood, the Senate elected by their re.
preseniatives and the body authorized TO
speak for them, hereby declare that the acts
charged by the English government and its
hirei scribes against The organzai ion-to.
wit; the blowing up Of the Clerkewenll prison,
and consequent destruction Of innocent lives
the firing of postotiices and gasworks, which,
as instruments and appliances of civilization
II is 10 the interes, OF all to preserve. and the
sending of explosive or deadly missiles to
individuals through the mail are neither
authorized, approved nor encouraged by the
authorities whom the members of the broth
erhood recognize but on the contrary, are
regarded by them as the work of secre
agents OF the English government, endeav.
oring TO bring odium upon the national cause
by the preparation of crime foreign both to
he genius, the instincts aud religious train.
ing OF the Irish people,"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-01-10

TO BE REDEEM ED.

General Gordon Granger is stationed at
Memphis. He is a Conservative. During
the late muicipal election he was much in
terested in the success Of DR.. Leftwitch, anc
after the result yas known sent the follow.
ing dispatch 10 the President:
MEMPHIS, January 2, 1868.
To the President, 1adree Johnson, Washing.
ton D. C.
Memphis redeemed. Leftwich elected
Mayor, Peace, order and quiet prevail
Free white suffrage indicated.
GoRpoN GRAGER.
To this cheerful announcement the Presi
dent replied as follows:
WASHINGTON. D. C. January 3, 1868.
To General Gordon Granger,
Thank you for the good news. Truth and
justice must triumph. Ny faith in the PEG.
pie has not been diminished. The day is
not distant when Tennessee will be redeem.
cd. - ANDREW JOHNSON.