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INNINGS.

1st End Sd 4th 5th 9th 7th Sth 9th. Total.
Hard to Beat 3 3 & 0 IL SO
Flyaway........ 8 9 10 5 90
Umpire-C. A. Holmes of the Tom Collins, Club.
Last Saturday, the Independent base ball
club, defeated the Light Feet Of Strouds-
burg. by a score of 43 to Is.
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Butler, Clarion, Venango and Warren
produce thirty thousand barrels of oil
daily, and one hundred and forty-two new
wells are being drilled.
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c. ?. Mick's, Robinson Crusoc' smoking
tobacco and havanna segars are the greatest
luxury in the smoking line to be had in
Stroudsburg. Give him call.
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ARGUMENR LIST FOR SEP. 7.
Greenswig VS.. Hartzeli,
Exception to Widows Appraisement Washington
0verficlds Estate,
Reuben Christ vs. Casper BUSkirk.
Theo Schoch VS.. Peter Mcrwine.
THOS. NJ. MClLHANEI, PrOth'y
Sept. Il 1874
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The superintendent of the Womelsdorf
Orphans House, in Reading, Pa, admits
that boy in the institution was punished
by having the ends of his fingers cut off
with knife
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Reese, Owens & Co.'S pork house, Pitts
burg, Pa, was destroyed by fire on Mon
day Loss, $4,000, which is covered by
insurance.
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Dauphin county spent $4,000 on va
grants last year.
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MARRIED..

In Stroudsburg, on the 18th inst BY Rev. !
Kehler, Mr.. Jacob Rohbacker, Of Pike Colp
ty, and Miss Lucy Bartlcson, Of Wayne CO.
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The order removing the headquarters
of the army to St. Louis in October was
promulgated by the Secretary on Saturday.
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WE have had about as dry and measely
weather for month past as one may wish to
live through. There have been repeated
threatenings of rain, but they have all ended
in threatening, and more's the pity.
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STROTDsBVRG
CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES,
AND
Gents Furnishing Goods,

that he bought at panic prices and Is Se-l';
them at prices that aStonish all Call aal
look and be convinced before you purch1ES
elsewhere. One door above Holnsheaoas
Drug Store. Sept. II-ln
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The most welcome guest Of the season.
the rain last Tuesday night.
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Dauphin county sent nine persons to the
Eastern Penitentiary on Monday 7th inst.
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Teachers Examinations.

The Annual Examination of Teachers WI"
be held as follows:
Barrett, at Oakland School house, Oct. :, Is''
Stroudsburg Borough, {"
NJ. Smithfeld, at Frutchey's d,
Smithfeld, at Craigs Meadows, O.
Jackson, at Jackson Corners,
POGO, at Manasseh Miller's,
Hamilton, at Snydersville,
Stroud, at Stroudsburg, /"
Chestnuthill, at Brodheadsville, II
Polk, at Gilbert's, To-
Eldred, al Kunkletown, H.
Ross, at Rossland, !"
Roy A general examination will be hSlu -, =
Stroudsburg, October 24th, for Teachers 'I'
ing to attend at any Of the above namsO F =,
ces. Examination each day TO begin d
o'clock A. NJ. N
A special invitation TO Directors aN'
others interested is hereby extended.
JERE. FRUTCHEI, 90. 0'Y
Strousburg, Sept. II, 1874.
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IT turns out that Josiah LaRue is the
prominent citizen of ofStroudsburg, who has
been sojourning for quite length of time in
Hotel d Ross at Honesdale, Pa, for forgery.
1t was bad enough for Josiah to get himself
into this unpleasant predicament, but it was
decidedly mean and contemplate for him to
try to shield his own name, which has not
really lost much, by assuming the name of
Mr. Chas f. Kinney, citizen of Stroud tsp.
in this county. As court was in session at
Honesdale last week, we presume that ere
this Judge Dreher has measured out to him
the reward he has so richly earned by this
nelarious transaction.
p. S.-Since writing the above we learn
that josiah has been sentenced to four years
in the Eastern Penitentiary.
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Robert VI. Tindall, of Mississippi. h.,
been appointed Consul at Canton, China
and Richard Peters, Jr., Of Georgia. and
Joseph p Woolman, Of Montana. Com.
missioners to the Centennial Celebration .,
Philadelphia.
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Che 1etfersoniau.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1874.
NOTICE.

Owing to the unwillingness of some of the
candidates to pay their bills after the election
is over, it is hereby Resolved by the under.
signed that from the date of the issue of this
paper, all persons advertising their Cards as
candidates for any Office and having election
tickets printed will be required to pay for the
same in advance.
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ACCIDENTS. Ts.-Frday last furnished quite
chapter of accidents happening in our borough
In the afternoon Layton, son of ]. S. VIII
liams, in attempting to jump on the street-car
at the lower end of town while it was in mo-
ton fell, and one leg getting under the wheel
was run over. Fortunately no bones were
broken, but the skin was burst on the calf of
the leg and on both sides Of the knee. Dr.
LeBar was called in and cared for his hurts.
A moral might be drawn from this but
where's the use. Boys will jump on the
street cars all the same.
On Friday evening one Of the hands work
ing in the uptown tannery fell from one of
the third-story windows Of the Stroudsburg
House, where he was boarding, and was SER
iously injured. DR.. jackson administered to
his hurts and he is rapidly improving.
Moral: Keep away from the windows.
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Prominent Democrats of Montqom..r
county claim that the defeat of Ross e,
Supreme Judge will hurt their ticket n
the county, and say that the RepubIic1,
will elect three Assemblvmen.
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TUEO. SCHOCH,

I UU. j tUSTrUIIdII
A. 0. GREENWALD,
pub. Democrat,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-06-06
Clean Up the Walks.

In my first experience at hoeing corn
and potatoes l was very much inclined,
like most boys, to give the last hill in the
row " a lick and a PROMISE" instead of
finishing it up in a workmanlike manner
with one or two clean cuts of the hoe in o
the sod or weeds beyond. Well do | re-
member the look my father gave me at
this attempt at sighting my work, as well
as his words, which were, Boys, always
hoe out your row." / have never forgot
ten the lesson learned SO long ago, and it
frequently comes to my mind as | see the
grass and weeds crowding the hills
around the edges of corn or potato field
in summer. These are pretty sure signs
that somebody has failed to hoe out his
row. The neglected fence corners, half
plowed headlands, deep, barren, dead
burrows to be seen upon thousands of
farms, in whatever direction we may
travel, show plainly enough that the
owners or occupants were never taught
and compelled to hoe out their row."
Butshe negligent habit acquired when
young of never hoeing out the row crops
out nowhere more conspicuously with the
man than in the treatment of the ground
about his home. First of all, if he re-
ceivcd proper instruction in his younger
days, there will be grass plat about the
house, and through this, or along side,
walks and a carriage way, in neither OF
which will grass or weeds be permitted to
grow. l know that some farmers will say
that this is all nonsense, and so is black
ing your boots and putting on a stiff col
lar when you go to church on Sunday.
No one ever put on such a thing as Sun
day clothes in hot weather for comfort,
but 1T is all for the looks, and that is just
what folks clean up their walks and trim
the edges of the grass for. A little
polish on pair of boots makes a
wonderful difference in the appear
ance of the man who wears them, just
as little hoeing and trimming of the
carriage-way and walks about a house re-
fleet beneicially upon all surrounding
objects. In addition to the looks, we'll
defined walk or carriage road has a Won
deriul effect upon the morals and habits
of both mankind and animal kind that
frequent them. We all know what is said
about the two kinds of paths and where
they lead in that good old Book, and the
broad one with no well defined limits is
typical of nine-tenths of those seen about
farmers grounds, and, might add, of the
general habits of the owners. But it is
scarcely necessary for me to enlarge upon
this subject, because every one who has
seen well-trimmed borders and clean
walks about the suburban or country
homes is aware of the effect they have
upon all the surroundings, and that they
lead to greater and better things.-COr.
Rurdk Nelo Yorker.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-06-06
Tools for Farmers.

Don't buy a chest filled with tools ready
for work. If you have had a good deal
of experience and know what you want,
you can buy chest and select the tools
yourself, but if you get one which some
one else has furnished you may, to be
sure, get good set of tools, but there will
be many for which you will find but little
use. Even regular mechanics have differ
ent ways of using tools, and an ingenious
amateur will often make shift to do with
out certain tools which II carpenter or a
blacksmith considers Indispensable. Here
are some good suggestions which we clip
from the Agriculturist:
Every farmer should have a small
room, tight and warm, which he can lock,
and where he can keep his small tools.
Then he wants good solid work bench,
with an iron wise on one side and a
wooden one on the other. For iron work
ing, he wants a solid piece of iron for an
anvil, a seven-pound steel lace-hammer, a
riveting hammer, one large and one small
cold chisel, two or three punches from
one fourth to three eighths inch, a trimmer
and counter-sink, to be used with bit
stock, a screw plate that will cut a screw
from one-fourth to three fourths inch; then
with round iron of the various sizes, and
ready made nuts, he can make any bolt he
wishes. For carpenter work he wants a
square, shaving horse, drawing knife, a
set OF planes, anger from one-half to two
inches, bits from one fourth to five eighths
inch, bit-stOck, thin chisel from one fourth
to one inch, framing chisels from one to
two inches, a fine hand-saw with coarse
crOss-cut and rip saw, large cross cut saw
for logs, and a grindstone. "-Chriot5osn
Union.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-06-06
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Orange Cake.-Six eggs, one cup of
butter, two and a halt cups of sugar, one
cup of milk, four cups of flour, one tea
spoonful of soda, two of cream OF tartar
Take two oranges-juice and rind-one
lemon, one and quarter pounds OF pow
dered sugar, whites OF two eggs. spread
between layers
Paving Horses.-A correspondent oil
the Farmers Union gives this remedy for
paving horses: Take a piece of trace
chain two feet long, fasten it to the leg
that he paws with, just above the knee,
with a hame strap, and let the chain hang
at the side of the leg; he will soon be glad
to keep it STILL"
Lotion of Acetic Acid for Badness
The following lotion is superior for
shampooing liquid, for removing dan
druff, and as a useful and pleasant appli-
cation for badness. 1t is, of course,
moderately stimulating, and in those
cases in which the hair tollicles are not
destroyed, but have become merely in
active, it is likely to prove efficacious.
Take of acetic acid one dram; cologne
water one ounce; water to make in all
six ounces.-C0untry Gentleman.
The Dahlia.-The dahlia has come
before the people lately in the shape OF a
| bit of history connected with the family
of the Hollands of Holland House In
some memoirs lately published there is
| an account of its introduction from some
other part of the world, its narrow escape
| from being eaten vegetable, etc; and
after this fortunate escape it became the
parent from which all dahlias sprung 1t
| seems strange that so many curious
things have been in just this danger; the
| potato, the tulip, and We don't know
what, all barely escaped voyage down
some human throat, and just in time to
render their names with us forever blest.
1t would seem as if there must have been
| a wondrous disposition on the part OF our
| forefathers to devour everything that
came to hand In these days people gen
orally take more care to know what they
| are eating, and all is not fish that comes
to their net.-F0rney's Press.
| Taking off the surplus water is only
advantage of underdrains. They also one
make a tenacious soil more friable and
| absorptive, and soil Is productive in
proportion to its capacity to hold water
| by capillary absorption. Vegetable ma
nure or clover sod plowed in will make a
soil friable for the time being but tile un-
| derdrains are permanent improvement
Mr.. Prout, the English famer, who keeps
no stock, but depends on commercial
manure to keep up the fertility of his soil,
is of opinion that his great success in
growing crops is as much due to his very
thorough tile draining as to his chemical
manures. Ridging and trenching a gar
den in the fall is a great promoter OF
early vegetation in the spring, and almost
Indispensable in many soils. The frosts
of winter make the clayey ridges permea
| BILE, so that when leveled in the spring
with light dressing OF compost manure
seed may be planted. and only enough
tillage or hoeing is required as will keep
the seeds in abeyance.-N. y. Herald.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-06-06
The Testimony OF Cluss.

The most damaging evidence against
the District of Columbia ring has been
given by q member of the body re-
sponsible for the frauds-Adolph Cluss,
Chief Engineer of the District and men,
Der of the Board of Public Works. He
is German. His professional ex-
perience covers twenty-eight years. He
has been in this country since 1S4S.
He says that he repeatedly warned
Gov. Shepherd that the engineers en-
plOyed by him were making false meas
urements. No heed was given to him.
In some cases no measurements whatever
were made. Enormous sums were paid
on mere estimates. One Albert Gleason
received $148, 230 at one time and $4,000
at another for work done on streets that
had never had an instrument or an en-
gineer upon them Money was paid and
contracts were awarded by Shepherd.
The Board was only his ratifying-
machine. In two and half years the
Board has had eight meetings. The long
est lasted an hour and half The main
business done at these rare gatherings
was the signing in bulk of the contracts
Shepherd had already awarded Mr.
Cluss gave many instances of false meas
urement. On Massachusetts avenue
$4,000 yards of grading was swollen to
100000. On one street the contractors
graded 1918 yards, and were
paid for 41,O00 yards. The over
payment amounted to $7,2S1.5O On
another street the real grading amounted
to 1867 yards, while bill for 1880
yards was duly paid. In the same way
7.491 feet of curbing became 6, 1868 feet the
day before the Board passed the vouchers
for its payment. The witness explained
his signature on several suspicious papers
by saying that in some cases his failure to
comprehend the matter, and in others his
conviction that resistance 10 the majority
was useless, had led him to put his name
to documents which he should have left
unsigned. The explanation seems plaus-
ible. In either event, whether he is an
accomplish turned States evidence or an
honest man surrounded by rogues, his ties
tim my is crushing. The efforts of Gov
Shepherd, backed by six lawyers, to meet
it have been in vain. 1t has convicted
the Board of Public Works of criminal
carelessness, though not necessarily Of
fraud. After this no one will be surprised
at the announcement that President Grant
has removed Mr.. Cluss from the Board O
Public Works and appointed his successor
This was done yesterday.-Chicngo Trid
une. Nay &c.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-06-06
Deep or Shallow Culture.

Discussions continually go on in agri-
cultural quarters as to whether soil should
be deeply stirred or plOwed up shallow.
The contestants on each side bring facts
and figures to sustain them. What are
we to say of these apparent contradic-
tons. If one man says that he had land
shallow proved which yielded but ten
bushels of wheat per acre, and after turn
ing it up deeply it brought twenty, are
we to say this is all nonsense-he did not
get the twenty. Or if man tells us that
he does not pillow at all, but stirs up the
ground with Il drag harrow, and that still
he gets as good crops as he ever had by
the deepest soil stirring, are we to tell the
man we do not believe him? Yet this is
practically the condition of things to,
day. The advocates of each practice en-
trench themselves on their separate facts
and experiences, and the observations OF
others on the other side have no weight
with them at all.
For our part we take pleasure always
in listening 10 the experience of those
who talk to us in opposition to our own
views. We learn more in this way than
in any other whatever. We often find
not that our own experience goes for
nothing-but that we have overlooked
some agent in success which ought
to have been taken into account
III ldCt, IL Is just mere lhdt So
much error comes in and leads to inter
minable discussion, when really people
| occupy the same ground. For the effects
we see produced IN our own every day
operations are never the result of one
cause, but of several acting in harmony
together. For instance, seed will not grow
| without there be some moisture in the
soil but it would be absurd to argue the
merit of different sy stems of seed-sowing
from the moisture point alone. We mus
consider light, and heat and air, and nu
triton, and several other things alto
gether. Thus it is with this question oil
deep blowing. One thing is certain. thai
| if we have a soil which dries out very
soon, and becomes hard on the surface
plants growing here will fail very soon il
a dry season. The deeply-loosened soil
under these circumstances, permits o
moisture coming up from below, and thu,
the plant is enabled to keep on, in even TIA,
worst seasons growing to maturity. Blu
if the situation be low, or the season wet
when water is an injury instead OF a ben
eft, then the deeper the soil the worse fo
the crop; because in such soil and stu
alton the water is encouraged to remain
there instead of passing away over thu
] surface to the nearest ditch. The ques
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-06-06

Love laughs at bolts and bars, and yet,
at the same time, there is "many a slip
'twixt the cup and the lip" The follow
ing true story pungently illustrates both
of u above truisms. 1t happened few
days ago in an adjoining county: A
CON ely youth fell madly in love with
rural belle. She smiled upon his suit
and doubtless sighed upon his waistcoat
They resolved to become "twain of one
flesh" but the stern father of the would
be bride was dead against it and fiercely
forbade the bans. But "love laughs at
bolts and bars" and the young couple
stole away amid the friendly darkness of
moonless night, fled to neighbor, and,
about dawn the next morning, succeeded
in procuring the services of parson All
things were made ready to tie the silken
knot, and the hopes of the lovers beat
high with the joys of a speedy fruition.
But right mere the parson m anifested some
doubts as to the propriety of the proceed
ing, and insisted on sending for the cruel
parent and getting his consent before pro-
ceeding with the ceremony. After much
arguing and his promising to intercede
with the girls father, and convincing
both that success would certainly crown
his appeals in their behalf, they finally
consented. and the irrascible old gent was
sent for. Here comes in that other
truism, "There's many a slip 'twixt the
cup and the lip" In due season, and
within the hour for the messenger to re-
turn with the cruel parent, fierce CHATTER
of hoofs was heard down the lane and a
voice wildly shouting, d" l won't consent
Il solemnly forbid them bans," struck
CONSERVATION and terror into the hearts OF
the wOuld-be bride and groom. The
groom ran to the door, and looking down
the lane saw ut its farther end the infuri-
ated father coming like the wind, under
whip and spur, hat in hand, his white
hair wildly streaming, and shouting with
every breath, IL won't consent" etc
With the promptness of a veteran the
lover seized his intended bride, and
mounting hi. steed with hot haste oore
her off in the opposite direction at fu
rious speed. The father, with the vigor
of despair, plunged his spurs deeper inc
the foaming horse, and gave hot pursuit
followed by the parson and the assembled
guests, all mounted, and taking a lively
interest in the sequel of the race. Down
the road, over hills, through the mist OF
valleys, into forests vocal with the songs
of morning. they held their mad career
But the steed that bore the lover gradu
ally slackened his pace under the double
burden, and the avenging parent steadily
gained on them. Finally he overlook
the flying pair, and, reaching forth
snatched his daughter from her lovers
grasp, wheeled his painting steed, ant
bore her rapidly toward home. Thu
lover, maddened but not despairing, gavt
hase, and back over the same road
red by the shouts of the exciteC
rushed the father and daughter anG
he young man soon devoureC
e between him and his in
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-06-06

ton, then, is removed from one of deep
soil to an overplus of water; and we mis-
take the whole point when we think that
| deep culture is alone involved.
| We have seen illustrations of this over
and over again We knew friend, some
years ago, who had a small piece of gar
| den ground, wherein he grew fruits and
vegetables for his family in his spare
time, and sold what he did not need to
provision stores close by One season he
! trenched, as it is called, piece OF
ground-that is, he looscned it up two
feet deep, and about the end of July he
planted bush beans thereon. The
whole of the season that followed was ex-
cessively dry, but his beans grew, as he
said, like wildfire, and the quantity of
soft, brittle snapshots" that he OBJ
tanned from comparatively short piece
of ground was prodigious, and the profits
no less wonderful. He thought he had
found the secret of growing beans. He
had that year an abundance,
and of very superior quality, when
his neighbors had none; and why could
he not always do The same? He eN-
tended the area of his trenched bean
ground the next season; but that season
proved n wet one, and on that same
ground his beans did not do at all. The
soil was brick earth at the depth of foot
or so, and the water of course came from
the surrounding hard earth to the looser
SUBSIDIZED portion, till it was a little sea
of water, In which roots of course could
not thrive.
We may learn from this that there is
nothing in either deep or shallow plow-
ing in itself. 1t is only as other ques-
tions-are involved with it that any prac-
teal argument can be turned out of it. II
is one of those questions in which com
mon sense must play conspicuous part
-F0rney's Weekly Press.