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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
A Modern Job.

A certain good snatured old Vermont
farmer preserved his constant good nature,
let what would turn up. One day one OF
his men came in bringing the news that
one of his red oxen was dead.
'Is he ?" said the old man. "Well, he
was always breechy cuss. Take his
hide off, and carry it down to Fletchers
it will fetch the cash."
An hour or so afterward the men came
back with the news that Lineback and his
mate were both dead.
care they p said the old man, "Well,
took them of B. to save bad debt that
[ never expected to get. 1t is lucky that
it amt the brindles."
After the lapse of an hour, the men
came back again to tell him that the nigh
brindle was dead.
els he Z" said the old man. "Well, he
was a very old OK take off his hide and
take it down to Fletcher's it's worth the
cash, and will bring more than any two Of
the others"
Hereupon his wife, who was very
pious soul, reprimanded her husband
severely, and asked him if he was not
aware that his loss was judgment from
Heaven upon him for his wickedness.
SIS it 2" said the old man "Well, if
they will take the judgment in cattle, it
is the easiest way can pay it."
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
OUR IRON INTEREST.

The number of hands employed in the
primary production of iron in the United
States is roughly estimated at lao, 900 !;
$4,000 in preparing ore and fuel, $4,000
in preparing fuel for rolling mills, H.
500, in blast furnaces, and $500 at for
ges and bloomeries. Add the 100000
engaged in manufacturing articles of iron,
and we have a total of 100000.
The approximate value of the pig iron
manufactured last year was S75, 100000
Adding to this the product of the roll
ing mills and forges, the amount is $685.
100000. Adding, again, the value of
articles manufactured of iron, aud the
value of the iron manufacture of the coun-
try for the year is $900,O00,O0O. OF rails
we produced in 1858 but 81 900 tons, and
1869 the amount had risen to $4,000
tons. OF steel rails we laid in the latter
year $4,000 tons, Is, 1000 tons of which
were of domestic manufacture, and it is
further estimated that the quantity of
steel rails laid this year will reach l50,-
600 tons. The annual importation of
foreign rails have varied between $685.
1874 tons in 1853, and 1O,lS6 tons in
1869 the amount again exceeded 100000
tons, or more than half the whole British
export
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
A TOrmented Woman.

am pestered with offers. Now [ nve
er onered to marry man. | never had
the presumption to say gentleman. "If
you will be my exclusive companion for
lille, will support you L will be moth
er to your children. AS to congeniality,
why I've only see you in company dress,
buy you please in that, and I'll take it for
granted thet in all their intricacies and
complications our natures will come into
perfect sympathy and consanguinity with
each other" But men will make such
propositions after a six weeks acquaint-
ance, when in reality they know no more
OF the woman whom they ask to marry
them than they do Of the man in the
moon. There are men who will propose
marriage to us, whose business would
keep them two thirds Of the time in the
wllds of the continent. They seem to
imagine that the honor of their name and
alliance would be a sufficient compensa-
ton for life spent two thirds in the con-
dition of grass widowhood, or of one en-
tirely subject to the provisions of the
backwooks. There are others, confirmed
lnvalids, who, because we are pleasing to
them, elect us to the station of their
nurses for life. Others are as poor as
poverty, yet not for moment do they
hesitate to offer us shares in their like
poverty. You men are deluded on this
subject of matrimony. You meet a wo,
man attractive to you, and forthwith you
conclude that the be-all and end all of
her existence here is place in your own
private cage, where she is to sing for your
own exclusive benefit. We propose soon
to take hand in this worlds little game;
we're trying to learn from your how
you've managed so long and SO success
fully to stock the cards we propose to
trump our share Of the tricks and see that
the honors are more equally divided we
may not all vote, or shrek, or oficiate as
platform statuary for Stanton or an An
thony, but things are working; new
deal all around is being quietly snuffed
out, and in year ar two some of your
gentlemen who deem all woman's fitness
to be for making your beds, cooking your
food, scrubbing your floors, and rocking
your cradles, will be astonished by the
positions held by us.-Lctter to San
Francisco Chronicle
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
Brigham Young and Four of His Wives.
George Afford Townsed writes from
Utah to the Cincinnati Commercial

George Afford Townsed writes from
Utah to the Cincinnati Commercial:
Brigham Young's most noted wife is
called Amelia she is a yivacious. spirited
woman, about thirty two years old, Ameri
can born, and without children. Another
of the Presidents wives is Mrs. Decker,
who retains indications Of much former
beauty, and her daughters are the hand
soonest of Brigham's children The old
gentleman looks out we'll for avocatons
for his sons-in-law, and it is said that in
his will he has divided all his property
into seven hundred shares, giving the
bulk of it to the church, and distributing
the rest equally among his families.
l saw Brigham at the Social Hall, on
the occasion of my last visit here, bid
four of his wives adieu. The old gentle,
man had been dancing, but had fatigued
the legs of seventy years, and he ap-
preached the cluster of his helpmates,
buttoned up in blue overcoat with
white vest underneath, red wooleu com.
forter around his neck, and a worn silk
hat in his hand. He looked very large,
square, and bland, and he said with ten
dernesss and dignity, shaking each by
the hand: "My dear, bid you good
night !"
The wives, crowding up with apparent
emulation, asked if it was his wish that
they also should accompany him home.
"No," said Brigham, "stay as long as
you please. L will have the carricge
come back and wait for you at the door
below. Good night 20
They were all middle aged women, com
mon place, but cheerful Brigham, it is
asid, objects to his wives dancing round
dances. 1t is wonderful that Mormon
with half dozen wives can be jealous
or fastidious about each of them,
and yet | have heard people here
fly into a passion because their wives
were spoken to on the street by
strangers or stared at. The only case
of assassination, chargeable with any de-
gree of probability to the Mormons, was
that of Brassfeld, toemaster, shot dead
in the streets of Salt Lake for selling a
Mormon's furniture, and proposing to
elope upon the proceeds of it with a wife.
Godbe, who hates Brigham Young sin
cerely, has four wives, besides one di-
vorced. Since he has been "cut of" from
the Church, he has contemplated the ex-
ample of radical monogamy. "And yet"
says Godbe, Il love all my wives so equal
ly, and they all love me SO harmoniously,
that cannot pick out the one to stay or
those who must 60"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
NO. 33.
Horrors of HvdrophObia.

On October 2lst, au officer of the Pitts
burg police force died of hydrophobia,
having been bitten in the hand a short
time previously by a dog The wound
produced was of a triaing character, aud
nothing was thought of it at the time
But on the afternoon of October %, he
began to feel sick, and sharp pains shot
up the arm from the wound in the hand
nearly healed. A strong fever set in, and
he grew excited and delirious. At 6rst
he talked wildly, and finally, tortured BY
the intense pain, be foamed at the mouth,
shrieking in his agony. This contiuued
for several hours, the pain gradually les
sening while the delirium augmented
He tried to bark like a dog, and bit aud
snapped at every one who approached
him. Being man of powerful build aud
great strength, it was extremely difficult
to control him, while he ragged and strug-
gled in the horror of his delrum. The
scene is described as terrible The strong
man, held down by force, every nerve and
sinew of his vigorous frame trembled and
excited shrek after shrek rending the
air, his face wild with horrible terror,
and the foam dripping from his mouth
Hour after hour went by in this fearful
delirum, until exhausted nature laid him
helpless aud dying before his terror striek-
en- family.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
Sharp Shooting.
export.

The following dialogue on sharp shoot
ing quietly took place between a Virginia
and Yankee picket: l say, can you
fellows shoot?
Wall, L reckon we can, some. Down
in Mississippi we knock a humble bees
eye winker off at three hundred yards.
Oh, that amt nothing to the way we
shoot up in Vermont. belong to mill
tary company mp there of "A hundred men,
and We went out for practice every week.
The captain draws us up single file, and
sets cider barrel rolling down hill, and
each NAH takes his shot at the bung hole
as it turns up 1t is afterwards examined,
and if their is shoot didn't go in the
bung-bole the member who missed it is
expelled. | belonged to the company ten
years, and there amt been nobody expell-
ed yet.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
Consider me Smith.

There is very good story in the pa
pers of the trick which was played by
DR.. Caldwell, formerly of the University
of North Carolina.
The doctor was small man, and lean,
but is hard and anguar as the most ire
gular of pine knots.
He looked as though he might be
tough, but he did not seem strong
Nevertheless he was among the knowing
ones, reputed to be as agile ''as cat -
and in addition, was by no means deficient
in knowledge of the "noble science of
self-defence Well, in the Freshmen
class of certain year was burly beef
mountaineer of eighteen or nineteen
This genius conceived great contempt
for old Bolus physical dimensions, and
he was Mortified that one so deficient in
muscle should be SO potential in his rule.
Poor Jones-that's what we'll call
him,-had no more idea Of moral force.
At any rate he was not inclined to knock
under and be controlled despotically by "a
man he imagined he could tie and whip.
At length he determined to give the gen
tleman genteel, private thrashing, some
night on the College Campus, pretending
to mistake him for some fellow student
Shortly after, on dark and rainy
night, Jones ment the doctor crossing the
Campus. Walking up to him abruptly :
"Hello, Smith +! you rascal-is this
you ?"
And with that he struck the old gen.
tleman blow on the side of his face that
nearly felled him.
Old Bolus said nothing but squared
himself, and at it they went. Jones
youth, weight and muscle made him an
"ugly customer" but after round or two
the doctors science began to tell, and in
a short time he had Knocked his antago.
mist down, and was straddle OF his chest,
with one hand on his throat, and the 9th
er dealing vigorous cuffs on the side of
his head. "Ah stop II beg pardon, doc
tor. Doctor CALDWELL mistake-for
heavens sake, doctor !" groaned Jones,
who thought he was about to be eaten up
IL really thought it was Smith y
The doctor replied with word aud
blow alternately
at makes no difference, for all present
purposes consider me Smith"
And, it i. said, that old Bolus gave
John such pounding, then aud there, as
probably prevented his ever making an
other mistake as to personal identity, at
least on the College Campus.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
Husbands Liability for Wife's Bills.

An action has just been decided in
Philadelphia, by Judge Thayer, in favor
of a husband who had been sued by a
dry goods firm for the amount of bill run
up by his wife. Defence set up that de.
tendant furnished his wife with an ample
supply of necessaries. In the course of
his charge Judge Thayer said /: at is a
false and foolish notion for trades people
to entertain that husband is bound to
pay all bills contracted by his wife. No
such monstrous doctrine is allowed in the
law. Tradesmen must ascertain the facts
and the true relations of man and wife
before allowing the latter to run up bills
which is to be looked to pay" Com
mentlng upon this exposition of law,
which ought to be more familiar than it
is, the Philadelphia Record thinks that
when trades people come to distinctly
understand it, Ga very sensible step will
have been accomplished towards reform
In the wanton extravagance aud ruinous
FOLLY which, under the meretricious i'm
pulse of the stupid despot called fashion,
so wastes the substance, mars the man
ners, deforms tho persons, degrades the
morals and wrecks the happiness OF
myriad households and individuals, not
only in this community but throughout
the country"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
THE BOYS WHO WANT TO BE
CLERKS.

Many oil our youth are afflicted will
the lnfatuation that city clerkships art
the most eligible positions, while trade.
are not respectable. Let them learn
that intelligent mechanics have better
chance OF securing wealth, eminence and
influence than the overcrowded clerkships
can afford. The present and last Cover
nor OF Connecticut, each, in their boy
hood, learned trade, aud thus became a
thorough master of the business in all its
details, In which each has achieved bril-
liant success. The most extensive manu-
facturer OF sllverware in the world, John
Gorham, OF Providence, declined the posi-
ton of clerk in the counting room, that
he might master the trade in his father
shop as regular apprentice, where he
learned thoroughly how to do with his own
bands all that he has since had to direct
others In doing. A multitude of similar
facts might be cited to show that the mas
terry of trade is one of the best prepara.
tIons Tor practical life and prosperity in
business. Clerks are often paid less than
sklllful mechanics, and are less independ-
ent In their precarious positions, they
are liable to disappointment and humiiat-
ing struggles with the thousands of others
looking for place. Every advertise
ment for clerk brings whole swarm of
applicants. How pitiable the condition
OF this super abundance Of book keepers
and exchangers wasting their lives In
waiting for place" while our factories,
railroads and trades are clamoring for
educated superintendent, foremen, en-
gineers, skillful managers and cunning
workmen. The position of the educated
and well-trained mechanic is far preferable
to that of average city clerks. The latter
may dress better, talk more glibly, bow
more gracefully, not to say obsequiously,
but they compare unfavorably with our
best mechanics in manly independence,
vigor of thought, and strength of charac-
ter.
Too many of our young men leave the
homestead on adventures less safe and re-
liable than the arts of industry A good
trade is more honorable and remunerat i've
than peddling maps, books, pictures, pat
ent rights, and clothes wringers, or in
city store, to be cash or errand boy, store
sweeper, FIRE kinder and counter jumper
generally. Without in any way dispar-
aging the useful position of the clerk, our
young men may properly be cautioned
against further crowding this already
"plethoric profession" To the boys in
the country, we say, instead of aspiring
to an uncertain and precarious clerkship,
stick 10 the farm, or learn trade, and
you will lay the broadest foundation for
prosperity. Those who have we'll improy-
ed the opportunities now offered in our
free schools can well afford to apprentice
themselves at sixteen years of age, sup.
plementing their education by evening
schools or by self training in their even
ing and leisure hours.-B. g. Northrag
IN Hearth and Home.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
How to Get Along.

Do not stop to tell stories in business
hour.
If you have place of business, be
found there when wanted, or in business
hours.
No man can get rich by louuging in
stores and saloons.
Never ''fool" in business matters.
Have order, system, regularity, liber
ality, promptness.
Never buy an article you do not need
simply because it is cheap and the man
who sells will take it out in trade.
Endeavor to avoid hard words aud per-
sonalities.
Trade is money.
Do not kick every stone in the path.
More miles can be made in day by 60,
ing steadily on than stopping.
Pay as you go.
A man of honor respects his word as
he does his bond
Aid, but never beg.
Help others when you can, but never
give what you cannot afford to, simply
because it is fashionable
Learu to say mo" No necessity of
swapping it out dog fashion, but say it
firmly and respectfully
Have bat few confdents, and the few
er the better.
Use your own brains rather than those
of others.
Learn to think and act for yourself
BE vigilant.
Keep ahead rather than behind the
times.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
How it Happened-The True Story of
Chicago'S Ruin.

Now, this thing has gone just far en-
ough. We haven't been able to pack up
an exchange during the last four weeks
without seeing something about Mrs.
Leary and her COW. We submit with
threadbare petiteuce, that for the first six
teen or eighteen thousand times it will
all do very we'll but when it comes to
making a habit of it, it is time to ''let
up" Hasn't Mrs. Leary made innumer-
able solemn afidavis to the effect that her
lamp wasn't kicked over and that she
was in bed and asleep when the fire broke
out and hasn't she caused the same to
be printed 10 all the city papers, and scat
tered broadcast over the land So where $
the use
The truth of the matter is just here !:
While Mrs. Leary, or O'Leary both
readings being adopted), denies the al
legged fact, she gives no solution of the
case in lieu thereof so the press, holding
to the maxira that "a bird in the hand is
worth two in bush" continued to hawk
about this same story. Now, to set the
matter forever at rest, We propose to give
the Uera acto, obtained from indisputable
authority, but which have thus far been
kept secret, lest the persons engaged in
it should suffer some legal penalty for the
legal consequences which their careless
Dess brought about.
The story is short one. The cow sods
being MIXED at night; she did kick the
lamp over the lamp did set fire to the
stable, which caused the confagration. =
1t happened this wise: A gay party was
gathered at house near Mrs Leary's.-
During the evening some milk was want
ed, and there was none in the house, and
Of course, none was to be bought, it be-
ing Sunday night. Finally it was pro-
posed by one of the party to make a
draft" on Mrs. Leary's COW without her
knowledge. The proposition was accept
ed, aud gay bevy repaired to the stable
for the purpose OF putting it into execu-
tion, with what result the whole world
knows.
These are the facts Chicago Mail.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
The Cost of a Woman of the Period
when fully made up.

Her beautifully luxuriant blonde hair
is worth-if it be a wig-from $50 to
$500 if it be switch, from SO to 500
if it be in curls, from SIS to $50.
He pure white brow, her dark, arched
eyebrows, cost from 81 to Sill.
Her large and liquid eyes are worth 81
Her white face aud neck (when enamel
ed) are procured at price ranging from
SIS to S35. ,.
Her faultless, cleaning ivories, if false,
cost her from S25 to $500.
Her ruby lips are worth about %
cents.
Her round, plump cheeks, if plumpcrs,
cost SIS.
Her swelling bosom is gotten up, if
pads, for 81 to Sl2 if respirators, for So
to $40 if balm and developers, for Sl4.
Her Grecian bend is worth anywhere
from s to 10.
Her plump arm Gf padded) cost from
81 to So.
Her Italian hands aud aristocratic nails
are worth from 50 upwards.
Her corsets (therefore her waist) is
worth from rs cents to SO.
Her hips are rounded at price from
81 to Sc so.
Her delicious limbs, when in the shape
of false calves, cost from So upwards
Her pretty foot and ankle cost from 81
to $50.
Her blotches, tongue scraper, neck,
etc, are worth 81.
The total beauty, therefore, costs her
self, or rather some man of the period,
from about S85 to 1920 and upward, pei
occasion for her personal charms, entirely
independent OF her dry goods and loves
of bonnets.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
PLASTER.

Fresh ground Nova Scotia PLASTER,
at Stokes Mills HEMLOCK BOARDS.
FENCING, SHINGLES, LATH, PA
LING and POSTS. cheap.
FLOUR and FEED constantly on hand
vii exchange Lumber and Plaster for
Grain or pay the highest market price.
BLACKSMITH SHOP Just opened by
{. Stone, an experienced workman.
Public trade solicited.
N. S WYCKOFF.
Stokes Mills, Pa, April 20, 1871.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
DR.. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist.

Announces that having just returned from
Dea,aI ColIegs, he is fully prepared to make
artificial teeth in the most beautiful and life
ike manner, and TO fill decayed teeth ac-
cording to the most improved method.
Teeth extracted without pain, when de-
sired. BY the use Of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely harmless. Repairing of
all kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Charges reasonable.
Office in J. q. KeIer's new Brick build
ing, Main Street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
aug 3l-tf
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07

At least one tribe or baud of Indians
are far from being the miserable savages
whose determination is SO loudly called
for. The ''peace policy" appears to have
been a genuine success so far as the Nez
Perces Indians are concerned They oc-
cupy reserved seats in the Lapwai reser-
walton, in Montana, They have 5000
horses, l $50 cattle and l20 swine. Their
reservation contains 2,400 square miles,
and they cultivate 1859 acres. They
raised this season, 800 bushels of wheat,
1000 of corn, 3,400 of oats, 200 of bar
ley, 1900 of potates, $50 of turnips and
500 onions, Such is the report of their
agent.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07

There is a needle factory in New Ha-
ven, the process of which is done by
single machine without the manual labor
of any person. A coil of steal wire is
put in. The machine cuts it off at the
required lengths. 1t cuts the steel pieces
cousecutively, punches the eye holes,
counter sinks the eyes and grinds the
points, and, in fact, everything until the
needless drop out completely formed
Another machine picks them up and ar
ranges them heads and points together,
and third piece of mechanism puts them
into paper. One of these machines oc-
cupy no more space than an ordinary ia
BILE, and each of them turns out from
thirty to forty thousand needles day
Most of the needles hitherto in use have
have been imported from England until
a few years past. They are made there,
mainly at Reddich in Worcester The
business employs about four thousand per-
sons, chiefly females, who are paid week
ly from 36 cents for small children to So
80 for skilled men.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-07
VOL. 20.
JOB PRINTING,
DR.. j. L A N T z,
SurCeon and Mechanical Dentist

s,li has his Office on Main Street, in the second
- Al Dr. : Walton's brick building, nearly oppo-
80 the S,roudshuTg House, and he 1atters himself
,,i nv eighteen years constant practice and the most
,, and careful attention all matters pertaining ng
. ss nrofe>sion that he is fully able to perform ali
.r,onS in the dental line in the most careful taste
i. and skilliu manner.
S,errsi attention given TO saving the Natural Teeth
sd 70 the insertion of Artificial Teeth on Rubber
csIl Silver or Continuous Gums, and perfect fits
nj cases insured.
Mo-, nersons know the great folly and danger OF en-
-g,ing their work to the inexperienced, to those
II,nr al a distance. April l3, ls7l.-ly
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NR. c. O. HOFFMAN. Nj. ID.

II Wound respectfully announce 10 the
public that he has removed his Office from
Oakland 10 CanadenSis Monroe County, Pa.
Trusting that many years of consecutive
practice Of Medicine and Surgery will be a
sufficient guarantee for the public confidence.
February %. IS70.-tf