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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14
MISSING MAN FOUND.
A HORRIBLE SIGHT.
THE BODY OF LEVI STRoUsS FOUND IN
BRoDHEAD'S CREEK.-THE BODY
EXPOSED TO THE WEATHER FOR THREE
WEEKS. A MASS OF CORRUPTION
ALMOST UNRECOGNIZABLE

ALMOST UNRECOGNIZABLE
Last Sunday afternoon our usually quiet
town was thrown into a state of excitement
by the report that the body of Levi Strouss
had been found in Brodhead' s Greek, nearly
opposite the residence of Mr.. VIM. Franken-
field. We hastened to the spot and there
beheld shight
HORRIBLE TO GAZE UPON.
He lay upon his back and but a few feet
from the waters edge, blackened mass of
corruption, only resembling human being
in form. A large crowd had collected around
the body, but few could stand the stencil or
gaze upon the sickening sight any length o.
time.
The body was found between four and five
o'clock in the afternoon, by Mr. Simeon Bar
~, while taking walk along the creek.
THREE WEEKS. OR MORE,
members of Mr. Frankenfeld' family obscrv-
ed an object lying in the water, but they sup
posed it was an old log washed there by the
high water. As the creek gradually became
lower the body was finally left on dry land
where it remained until found.
On Saturday evening, April 4th, the day
of Mr.. Strouss' disappearance, he was at the
residence Of Mrs. Staples, who resides a
short distance below where the unfortunate
man was found. He was evidently deranged
at that time, for while there, he remarked to
Mrs. Staples, that the
WATER WAS TALKING TO HIM,
and that it told him to follow the creek. 1t
is generally supposed that after leaving there
he followed the creek to the rear of the resi-
denc7 Of Mr.. S. L. Drake, there attemp-
ted to cross and while doing so, lost his foot
ing and drowned and as the water was quite
high at the time his body was carried with
the current to where it was found.
He was identified by several receipts found
in pocket book taken from his pocket, and
by his right thumb being off. The pocket
book also contained seventy cents in cur
rency.
S. i. Drake, Esq, summoned jury, who
after hearing what little evidence could be col
ected, returned verdict of academia
drowning, while deranged The jury was
composed Of the following gentlemen: : Simon
Barry, William Frankenfeld, Lorenzo d
Smith, John w Smith, Henry 7. Franken
field and Anthony Staples.
Lee & Co., undertakers took charge of th'
remains, placed them in neat coffin anc
conveyed them Immediately to the cemetr.
where they were inferred.
The unfortunate man was about 60 year
of age and leaves several grown up sons ant
! daughters to mourn his sad end.
Since writing the above, it is reported tha
Mrs. Huffsmith, who had charge of the resi-
dence of Hon. j. B. Storm, heard Mr.
Strouss on the Iron Bridge close by tn
house, from eleven clock, Saturday night
April 4, the night of his disappearance, un
til about three o'clock the next morning
violently shaking the braces of the bridg
and every few moments cxclaiming, 'Sha
[, or shant l." If such is the case, he mus
have jumped off the bridge into the wate
below, a distance of about twenty five fee
and met almost an instantaneous death.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14
Caution II office

The undersigned, owners of Real Estate :.
Stroud township, Monroe County, Pa. herabr.
caution all persons against trespassing on tbe,
premises for the purpose of fishing hnnting =.
for any other purpose whatsoever, as thev " viii
have the law executed as in such cases nror;
ded. SlLAS l.. DRAKE,
Nav 14-1S741 CATHARINE STAPLES
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The following applications for Hotel and
Restaurant Licenses have been filed in the Of
fee of the Clerk of Quarter Sessions of Mon
roe County, and will be heard on Monday,
May %, 1874.
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TRIAE LIST. MAY IT. 1874

I. NJ. MlLHANE1, Proth'y.
Nav. IA 1874
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-11
Paris Seen by an English Artist.

A Partisan fishing in the Seine from
one of the numerous QesGis and bridges
with which Paris abounds is one of the
greatest personifcations of patience ex-
tant. Be the weather broiling hot or
soaking wet, there he will stand, rod IN
hand, watching the very gaudily decor
ated float bobbing up and down In the
muddy waters, always shouting Ca
mord" ("a bite''), but rarely, if ever,
catching the smallest or most unwary of
gudgeons. Punch, some years back,
represented the excitement on Partisan
bridge because Alphonse had caught a
gudgeon, and the caricature was but
little exaggerated, for next to watching
float of his own a Partisan likes to
watch one of some one else's. Indeed,
many lazily inclined prefer the latter,
as they are thus spared the trouble of
holding the rod. When an unhappy
fish is caught there is such scene of
shouting and gesticulating that to the
uninitiated it seems like an enaeute IN
miniature. Many of the fishermen have
fished for years together off the same
spot, which is rarely encroached upon
by a newcomer. In fact, the sport is
frequently only made an excuse for an
hour or two's gossip with brother anna
teurs of the "gentle art" Another
very favorite amusement with the Paris
ians is ride along the Champs Elysees
in the afternoon. Frenchmen are scarce
ly more at home on harseback than on
the deck Of cutter yacht IN channel
swell, but nevertheless they greatly af-
feet everything horsey-and with the
Parisian everything horsey means every
thing English. Thus the horsey man
has everything pertaining to his stable
English, from his groom or tiger to his
harness and the 6OltledogIee that runs
at his horse's heels.
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in his hand, when it suddenly occurred
! to him to make boat of one of the
pedal coverings, and straight into the
lock it went. Then the other boys
commenced to "waft'' it to the other
end of the lock by throwing stones,
ETC., at it, and the result was that the
ship went hopelessly down. Richard
trembled at the thought of going home
with one shoe. It would be known that
he played truant, and a good stout
stick would await him. Various expe-
dents were thought of and suggested
as means of getting him out of the
scrape, but they were all failures. The
last one was to induce shoemaker in
the neighborhood to make mate for
the shoe inside of an hour, and for the
handsome remuneration of two cents.
but Richard was astonished TO learn
from the artist that it could not be done
in that brief space Of time, and partic-
u1arly for that sum of money. The on
ly thing remaining was to hook shoe
belonging to a mill-hand, which was
about five times as large as the other.
This disparity in size was discovered the
very first thing on his entering the
house; the mill-hand came, making
terrible fuss about tie larceny of his
shoe. Richard was in disgrace again,
and had to flee once more to the noun
tains. And "sich," as Sairy Camp
would say, 'sich is boys. - Cincinnati
Commercial.
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superannuated Dawdlers.

A Saratoga correspondent writes
"The old beaux at Saratoga are very
numerous at present. They come here
and dangle parasols and fans in return
for invitations to parties and Germans
during the winter. This is easier than
calling now and then, which gets to be
terrible bore with the old beaux, who
like their cigar and newspaper and home
comforts of an evening, and are not to
be coaxed out unless there is a swell
affair with wine supper to repay them.
So here they are dangling fans and
doing penance, and next winter they
will be invited again, because they were
{ so attentive at Saratoga The old
beaux are growing bit heavy in figure,
and show few crows feet, but on the
whole get themselves up well, and, as
they are acknowledged society men,
the young ladies are satisfied to have
them at their heels.
"The old girls who are hawked about
from one watering-place to another are
also we'll represented this season. These
young ladies are expert In casting
die-a-way glances, hanging their hands
fin-fashion, and In all the gushing tricks
of maiden-kood. They are striving to
make the most of themselves with a
deadly effort, and are really very stylish
in their fine toilets. with escalloped
foreheads, hair parted on one side, and
bonnets pinned on captivatingly. This
old stock have been waiting in the
market for rich husbands, and could
now be bought cheap"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-11
German Musical Invasion of France

Sutherland Edwards, in his recent
book on "The Germans in France, +"
tells the following pleasant anecdote of
the armed propagation of the Wagner
idea 'HThe morning after my arrival
in Rouen, was awakened by the sound
of such music as under ordinary cireum-
stances would never have been heard in
France. A selection from 'Lohengrin'
was being played by the band of an
East Prussian regiment just IN front of
the hotel. Here, then, was conquest
syrnbolized in music. Nothing but a
successful invasion could have brought
Richard Wagner to the native city of
BOildieu; beneath whose statue the un-
familial sounds were, at that moment,
being produced. The sarcasm, however,
met with very little notice from the in
habitants. Street-boys, whose curiority
and love of novelty are stronger every
where than their patriotism, held the
music-sheets for their enemies; but the
adult passer-by paid no more attention
to the doubtful strains than did the or
chestra dog that had dragged the big
drum after him, from somewhere near
Konigsburg, to the capitol of Nor
mandy, and who now, like adog that;had
seen the world, lay down on the pave
ment, and calmly slept without once
disturbing the general effect of the
music by the unexpected rinforSGndO
of snore. It was freezing hard, and
the brass instruments, pinched by the
cold, were terribly hoarse. What, how
ever, was the frost to East Prussians?-
one of whom, when shivering French
man complained that the thermometer
marked ten degrees below freezing
point, is said to have replied: Ten de-
grees? Why, in East Prussia, at ten
degrees. IL thaws >"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-11
A Versailles Fete.

The Paris correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Press describes a recent fete de
7aetit at Versailles as follows "The
display of fireworks began shortly after
dark, with showers of many colored
rockets and display Of serpents Of fire,
which coiled and hissed and darted to
and fro in truly lifelike manner on the
surface of the basin of the great foun-
tain of Neptune. The groves were illu-
minated with colored lamps, and blue,
red, and green lights were burned at
intervals amid the trees with exquisite
effect. The grd1des eaetr themselves
were, however, the most beautiful part
of the spectacle. The fountains COM
menced playing early in the evening,
and the Neptune fountain was illumina-
ted with new and vivid light, chang
ing its color at intervals, so that the
great jets d'eau seemed alternately
formed of ruby. emerald, or sapphire
fame. A new device in fireworks, ter
minating with q cataract of fire, closed
the superb and bewitching spectacle,
which reminded the beholder of the
fetes once held in those gardens when
Versailles was the home of royalty, and
Louis XIV, Nine. de Montespan, and
Nine. de Maintenon, with princes,
dukes, and barons by the score, held
high revel in these lovely grounds.
The crowd was very great, but, as is
usual at such public diversions in
France, perfect order was maintained
throughout the evening. Marshal Mac
Mahon and a large number of invited
guests witnessed the display from a
staging specially erected for their ac-
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-11
Occupation.

What glorious thing is occupation
for the human heart Those who work
hard seldom yield to fancied or real sor-
row. When grief sits down, folds hands
and mournfully feeds upon its own
tears, weaving the dim shadows that a
little exertion might sweep away, into a
funeral pail, the strong spirit is shorn
of it's might, and sorrow becomes our
master. When troubles flow upon you
dark and heavy, toll not with the waves,
wrestle not with the torrent; rather
seek, by occupation, to divert the dark
waters that threaten to overwhelm you,
into a thousand channels which the du-
ties of life always present. Before you
dream of it, those waters will fertilize
the present, and give birth to fresh
flowers that will become pure and holy
in the sunshine which penetxates to the
path of duty in spite of every obstacle.
Grief, after all, is but selfish feeling,
and most selfish is the man who yields
himself to the indulgence of any pas
sion which brings Joy to his fellow-men.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-11
Iananeao Tea Cnltivation.

Tea culture is very simple. First the
seed is deposited in hollows four or five
inches deep and eighteen inches wide,
made in the ground at intervals OF -four
or five feet then the earth is sprinkled
lightly over the seed. The sowing IL
usually done in November or December,
and after the spring rains have fallen
the plants rise in a cluster from each
seed-bed. Manure is occasionally APP
piled TO them, but aside from this they
require little care except 20 be kept Tree
from weeds. The first crop OF leaves IL
not yielded till three years after The
planting. They are then transplanted
in order to give each plant more space
for growth, and are placed IN rows SIX
or eight inches apart. Sometimes the
bushes are kept low by pruning and to
prevent their spreading and overgrow-
ing each other. After seven OF ten years
they are cut down, 80 that the young
and tender shootg below may have a
chance 10 grow. The critical season In
tea-culture is when the leaves have TO
be picked, the time for which, in two or
three pluclings between March and
August, varies in different districts and
with different plants. The picking is
generally done by women, children, and
old men, working in gangs OF ten or
twelve each, hired for tho harvest, and
maid according 10 the amount OF tea
picked. With hard work forty pounds
DER day may be gathered, which guam
tity will yield ten pounds Of tea when
dried. First the leaves are placed In
broad sunlight they are then Drowned
and roasted over n furnace.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-11
Russian Railways.

It appears from statement in Rus
sian papers that the Russian railway sys.
tenn covered, at New Year last, total
length of 15,S42 versts, of which s, 1862
versts were state-owned lines; 651
versts are in Finland. The figures re-
fer only to lines already fully COM
pleted and worked 1,740 versts more
are in progress of construction, and
2,343 versts are projected. OF the fifty
railway companies existing in the EN-.
pire, only ten have constructed their
lines altogether without government as
s1stance the remaining forty are guar
anteed-twenty to their full amount of
their capital, the other twenty only to a
partial extent. The entire sum annually
guaranteed by the state in the shape of
interestand ndrepayment ofcapital amounts
to 81, III, ,627 roubles. In 1873, IA, 592,-
172 roubles, being 1882 per cent. of the
sum total, were actually p1id out of
the exchequer. The charters granted
to railway companies are for the most
part terminable after between seventy
five and eighty-five years. Some small
companies have charters only for thirty
seven wears.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-11
A Button.ical Residence.

The Paris residence of the late Duke
Of Brunswick, now in the course of de-
molition, in the Avenue Friedland, was
a most extraordinary house, as all dis
covered who attempted TO enter it, for,
like a coat or waistcoat, it had to be
unbuttoned in order to get in. At the
front gate was a metal button, and a
visitor would have to press this. 1t in
stantly set number of bells ringing IN
violent commotion. Admitted into the
garden, you still found yourself exclud-
ed from the house. Another button
had to be touched, and that done you
found yourself in an unfurnished hall.
There was no staircase communicating
with the upper rooms where the duke
slept. More buttons had to be pressed,
and at last you found yourself sitting
in an arm chair, and raised by hydrau-
lie lift apparently to the hving-rooms
which the duke used to occupy. The
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-11
A Camel Story.

That some animals are verv mindful
of an injury and eager for revenge. nc
matter how long delpved, there is am
pie proof. All our young readers re.
member the story of the elephant who
took the tailor's slight to heart and
gave that little gentleman a thorough
drenching and You may also remember
numberless stories of how the same nm
wIeldy beasts remembered injuries 7
years, and waited for chance of vent
ing th ir spite. But one of the most
remarkable cases on record Is this one.
which we Gull from the columns of a
literary journal:
" A year or two ago it chanced that a
valuable camel, working in the oil mill.
was severely beaten by its driver who
perceiving that the camel had treasured
mp the injury, and was only waiting a
favorable opportunity for revenge kent
a strict watch on the animal Time
passed on. The camel pereeivipy that
it was watched, was Quiet and ohed emf
and the driver began to think that the
beating was forgotten, when one night
after the lapse of several months. tbe
man who slept on the platform in the
mill whilst, as is customary, the camel
was SeaAACu II a CoTuets happening 20 re-
main awake, observed by the moonlight.
that when all was quiet, the animal
looked cautiously around, rose softly,
and stealing towards a spot where a
bundle of clothes and a bernouse,
thrown earelessly upon the ground, re-
sembled a sleeping figure, cast itself
violently upon them, rolling with all its
weight, and tearing them most viciously
with its teeth. Satisfied that its ven
geance was complete, the camel was re-
turning TO its corner, when the driver
sat up and spoke At the sound of his
vioce, and perceiving the mistake it had
made, the animal was so mortified a
the failure and discovery of its scheme,
that it dashed it's head against the wall,
and died on the spot. Such is the story
as related by the dragoman.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-09-11
Tempering Justice with sympathy

"This ere case is o sad one," re-
marked Biiah, as he brought out Catha-
rine Judy, woman of fifty.
1t was disturbing the peace. The Of
ficer says he won't swear that he smelled
whisky, but he is willing to deed his
house and lot to any one if he can't say
that the echoes of her gentle voice
reached him as he was leaning on a
hitching- post, five blocks away. She
was mad, ugly and stubborn, and she
made awful threats against his Ii @.
She had, however, partly compensated
for them by weeping all night long, and
by oft-repe ated promises that her fu-
ture life should be as full of sobriety
as a supfower is full of seeds.
81 hope so, Catharine-I hope SO, "
replied his honor, as she made the same
promise to him. "You are aged and
gray, Mrs. Judy. You are rapidly
travelling toward that last receptacle of
the human form, aud it won't be long
before the sod closes over you forever. Z"
81 believe that same" she answered,
trying to shed tear.
81 believe you want to be good, " he
continued. 81 believe SO because you
have said so fifteen or twenty times at
this bar. You have promised and prom
ised and promised, and coaxed and beg
ged, and my heart has every time been
touched"
"That's nice, she said, smiling low
ingly at Bijah.
"I want to let you off this morning"
he went on. 81 am certain that you
wonld never get drunk again, and that
1 should never behold you at this bar
as prisoner. But l can't do it. The
people of the great state of Michigan
are at my back; they demaud that You
be sent up for two months. It's an aw-
full thing to see a woman fifty years old
going to the house of correction, but
can't help it; am only middleman,
and 1 must obey the law"
"Couldn't make it half an hour ?"
she anxiously asked.
"Couldn't do less than sixty days,
he answered, and she went back and sat
down ON the stove hearth, and said that
she would be dead ere the rosy hues of
sunset had commenced to gild the wes-
tern skies.-Detroit Free Press.
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voltaire's Lawsuit.

A writer gives the following anecdote
of'Voltaire When he bought of the
President de Brosses the chateau in
which he lived, it was found that in TIE
measurement of the land there was
comprised strip belonging to farmer
named John Panissot, who went to Vol
taire to claim his property. The latter
would have listened favorably to his
demand if he had not been warned that,
right or wrong, many farmers surround
ing his new purchase were prepared to
bring similar request. Desiring to
cut short what he believed to be pre-
tence, Voltaire rejected the claim, and
was arraigned at the tribunal of Gex,
wnere, defended by lawyer doubtless
better than his cause, he nonsuited the
the plaintiff, and was pronounced the
owner of the disputed land.
But Panissot determined to appeal
from an unjust sentence. AS he wanted
money for this purpose he conceived the
plan to apply to him against whom he
was conducting the suit; and accord
ingly went to,Voltaire's residence, and
asked an interview, which was accorded.
"Ah, is it you, Panissot? What
brings you here ?"
My confidence IN your uprlghtness J;
for come to beg you to lend me money
enough to prosecute my appeal to the
court of Dion from the sentence pro-
nounced at Gex."
'What, do you think that shall
consent to furnish you with arms to
fight me. with rods to chastise me?"
eyes, Monsieur Voltaire, a great
man like you, whose works are full of
generous sentiments, will understand
my confidence in him in this case."
"But, Panissot, you are attacking
my property"
9" No, sir, I am reclaiming my own.
You doubtless prefer justice to a small
bit of land which adds nothing to your
fortune, but which lessons my property
very much"
Voltaire, surprised at a confidence
which honored him, as we'll as at the
firm language of the farmer, acceded to
his request, and lent him three hundred
francs. The case carried to the tribu-
nal of Dijen was lost by Voltaire, who
was obliged to grant to Panissot the
land claimed. When the latter came
to return the sum borrowed, Voltaire
said to him, "Keep it, it will serve to
pay the expenses of the first trial at
Gex, which you unjustly lost"
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More Facts About Chinch Bugs.

An extensive stock dealer informs the
st. Louis Rural World that in his re-
cent travels he has seen much of the
ravages of the chinch bug, and that the
following is the best way to destroy
them When they first appear, as they
usually do, on the side of the corn field,
and before they have entered it, cut five
or six rows of the corn and clear the
ground then plow a strip of land eight
or ten feet wide, leaving deep dead
furrow, and the trap is complete. When
the bugs approach the field, they will
pass in under the corn placed across
the dead furrow, and preferring the
shade and moisture, remain there until
the stalks become perfectly dry, when
they can be put through process of
cremation that will prove effectual in
destroying them. Should they first ap-
pear in the middle of field of corn Gas
it not unfrequently happens they do),
they can be surrounded on the forego-
ing plan and destroyed in the same way.
England and Scotland are said to
contain six hundred thousand habitual
drunkards, including both sexes.