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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

One may live conqueror, or king,
or a magistrate. but he must die man.
The bed of death brings every human be-
Ing to his pure individuality. to the in-
tense contemplation of that deepest aud
most solemn Of all relations, fhe relation
between the creature and his Creator
Webster.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

A young girl, who had an offer of mar
riage which she wished to accept, sub
mitted the matter to her father, who ad-
vised her against matrimony, using as an
argument the quotation from St. Paul.
They who marry do well, but they who
do not do better Well said the damsel, l
love ty do well let those 90 better, who
can
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

A man named Tucker was married
last week in Woodford county, HI, and
the boys" presuming on his good nature,
gathered to give him a grand charivari.
They were progressing finely when they
discovered the bridegroom in their party
pounding and old tin pan as hard as any
Of them. The subsequent proceedings
interested them no more
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

Ben Zine asked O'Shea, 'how is it that
the most reliable account of the Deluge
makes no mention Of Irishmen having
been taken into the ark p
"Divil the one was there" said O Shea.
How. then was the race perpetuated?'
queried Ben.
Faith" said O'Shca, Gin those days
the Irish we're wealthy, and had boat Of
their own"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

As two children were playing together,
little Jane got angry and pouted Johnny
said to her, Look out, Jane, or III take
seat up there on your lips" "Then,"
replied Jane, quite cured of her pouts,
IN laugh, and you'll fall off.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14
A MERTCAN HOTEL.

h. / L ne subscriber would inform the public that
Tn K nas leased the house formally kept by Jacob
an"ecnt, anIi, IN the Borough of Stroudsburg, Pa,
!. ,'u having repainted and refurnished the same,
b;p prepared to entertain all who may patronize
;,b ,i, 1t Is the aim of the proprietor, to furn-
."J superior accommodations at moderate rates
Ss, WIN vii, spare no pains to promote the COM
,,t.' Vi The guests. A liberal share of public
PI'r9nage solicited.
>P'iI Il, 12-tf. d. L. PISLE.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

1t ia settled principle, your honor,
said an eminent lawyer, that causes al
ways do for the lawyers, blandly respond
ed the Judge, but I've sometimes known
single cause to deprive client OF all
his effects.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

1t is in vain to put your finger in the
water, and, pulling it out, look for hole;
and equally vain to suppose that. how
ever large space you occupy, the world
will miss you when you are dead.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

One firm in Reading, employing fifty
hands, manufacture $4,000 wool hats
year, consuming 100000 pounds of wool,
$4,000 worth of trimmings, and 700
tons of coal
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

Philadelphia has fifty,four carriage
manufactures, representing a combined
capital of 100000, giving employment
to 700 men and producing yearly money
value Of 81 100000.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

II. l.. Ebson of Parryvile, Carbon
county, has a daughter who at the time
of her birth weighed only three and one
half pounds. The infant is living and is
perfectly healthy.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

The Brownsville Bee says: "We
noticed large buckle going down the
street the other day with little woman
strapped on iu trout of it, How peculiar
are the fashions"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14
AHES gS. WALTON,
y ATTORNEY 3t Law.

l. 4thGc in the building formerly occupied
Ss. ~ L. > NJ. ,Burson, and opposite the Strouds-
'uiS Dank, Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

81 say" said a rough fellow TO fop
with conspicuous bow legs--'I say, don't
you have to have your pautaloons cut
with a circular saw 7"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14
WILLIAM S. REEFS,
DR.. j. L A N T z,
and Mechanical Dentist,

sl has his office on Nam street, in the second sto-
- of Dr. : WaltOn's BRICK building nearly opposite
ne Srn dsbgrg House and he haiters himself that
esheen constant pracllce and The most earnest
~ r.pful attention to all matters pertaining To his
srSsl1n that he Is fully able To perform all opera
hans IN the dental line the most careful, tasteful
Ind sSillful manner.
Soeria attention given TO saving the Natural Teeth;
,IsS Ia the insertion of Artificial Teeth Rubber,
c,d silver. or Continuous Gums, and perfect fits ia
al cases insured.
Mos, persons know the great folly and danger Of
gtag their work TO the Jerienced, or to those
,,rpr Al 4 dis1nce. April l3. lS9I.-ly.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

Eastern Pennsy lyauia is overruu with
gypsits,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14

Between 5000 aud 1000 Swiss in
New York
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-14
IA hPLE HOUSE.
IAN YOU TELL WHY FITS

bn, VH"t When any one comes to Strouds.
f., y 70 buy Furniture, they always inquire
VI NcCartys Furniture Store, iSept. 26
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04

WHETHER expansion of the cur
rency, be. OF not, in the line of safe
precedents, the discussion of the sub
ject, in both houses of Congress, has
developed the important fact. that
there is lively sympathy, if not a
practical union between the South and
Northwest. Such an union, based
upon obviously mutual interests, is
the terror of New England and its
contaminated vicinity, whicha are quak-
ing as coming events cast their shad-
ows before them, and indicate their
assured doom. The power of New
England will ere long be thing
of the past, and when its prestige
is lost, there will be Credit Mobillier
investigation, not by a Congressional
committee, but by the combined in
telligence of the whole country, into
the evils which have grown out Of its
fanatical Puritanism the damage to re-
ligion and morality and liberty done
through the agency of its higher law
doctrines and the specious fallacies of
its heretical piety.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04

AN East Tennessee Radical editor
has figured up the result of the No
vember election-the sum of which is,
that Maynard will be Governor, Andy
johnson Senator, with the present
members of Congress retained. We
have not before seen such direct proof
that the Ex-President is again identi-
fed with the Radicals, and from it, we
infer that he and Maynard are doing
the pipe-laying " for the next cam
paign. The editor referred to says that
the above results are to be brought
about by fusion of the johnson men
with the Radicals, paying, as coHsid
Grafton, a liberal share of minor Offices
to the johnson faction. Now if said
faction can be bought so cheap by
Radical leaders, they are already so
nearly Radical that the distinction is
clearly without difference. We be-
lieve, however, from our personal
knowledge of Johnson, that they will
drop their leader-like a hot potato
whenever they suspect him of such
an understanding with the Radical
party.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04
y Tennessee.

A good showing is made for the
public school interest of Tennessee
by Col. Fleming, the able superinten.
dent of that State He says >: The
system is organized in every county OF
the State, and large majority Of the
counties have levied additional taxes
for its support The total white pop
ulation within the scholastic age, from
six to eighteen, is 324, 039. The num-
Der of white children enrolled in the
schools is 1929. We thus find that
over 45 per cent. OF the total white
scholastic population have entered the
public schools-33, 46 colored children
have also entered the public schools,
making the total number enrolled,
269 679. %
The schools have been retarded in
thei: progress by the peculiar Difficult
ties which always attend a first organi-
zatlon, lnexperiGnee in management,
temporary want of funds from delay
in the collection of taxes, lack of suit
able school buildings, placing school
terms at unsuitable seasons of the
year, and perhaps some necessary pro
visions omitted In the law; all these
things have presented annoying ques-
tons, and may, to some extent, have
diminished the full usefulness of the
schools, but their general success has
been so far source of congratulation
to all friends OF. education, and has
demonstrated their present economy
and usefulness, and points unmistak-
ably to the perfection they are destined
to attain ..---. -. ...5..
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04
STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT.
Collision Between. the Ada Heilman
and Laura Davis. r. ~.

The steamboat Ada Heilman, which
left here Saturday morning for Nash
vile, collided with the Laura L. Davis
en- route from Cincinnati to Nashville,
that evening at D o'clock, and came
near sinking. The scene of the acct
dent was at the head of Big Edo" bar,
about three miles above Eddyyille
Both boats left Eddyville about tae
same time, the Davis having about
fifty yards start. Both boats had good
passenger trips, and the officers of each
were anxious to be ahead of the other.
The Heilman attempted to pass the
Davis, the latter tried to cut her off
and hence the collision.
The Heilman returned to PaGucah
for repairs and her Captain. John Z.
Massengale, was interviewed yesterday
by a Kentuckian reporter. Capt.
Massengale made the following state
ment:
Il was on duty at the time of the
accident. The Davis was in the right
or inside of the stream and the He'll
man in the current short distance
behind her. We blew twice to pass
and the Davis replied. We then cross
ed over to take the side we blew for
and were going ahead. As soon as
we Strengthened out and started up,
the Davis crossed over ahead of us
and attempted to cut US out of the
channel. We stopped our engines,
but too late to preventa collision. As
the Davis attempted to straighten out,
her wheel flanked down on our star
board guard, tearing away about ten
feet of the guard and making hole
in the hull large enough to haul a
hogshead of bacon through, and cut
ting US down to within two planks of
the water. We Immediately ran into
shore for safety, and in doing so knock
ed both chimneys down by running
under some trees. We repaired the
break in the hull as we'll as possible,
This took US about four hours and we
then returned to Paducah, reaching
here about 3 o clock Sunday morning
The Davis was not seriously hurt, the
only damage being a wheel slightly
broken. She took our passengers and
went on to Nashville. Our damage
will probably foot up 81 900.
The repairs on the Heilman were
nearly concluded last evening, and she
will leave for Nashville as advertised
at 10 o'clock this morning. If it
should be decided to enter protest it
will be done at Nashville.-Paducah
Kenmckian, March 81.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04
General Agency For All.
NOW, WHEN TIRE GRANGE AMT
HERE, SHOULD M0fE--AiS'f u
AT H0ME-.-N0T IN.

Call at Sam Brockman's Carriage. Buggy
and wagon Repository, and leave your or
ders for anything in agricultural, fruit Oh
floral world, implements. machinery, fruit
flowers, and you shall have IL at manufac.
turers' prices, delivered free of freights
transportation. &c. Your orders solicit
ed, satisfaction guaranteed. Icall your at
tention to a few leading manufacturers.
H. NJ. Smith & Co., Richmond, Va, Straw
Cutters, Cistern Fixtures, Flows, Corn Shell
lers. hand and power, Cider Mills. rr.l go
T. C. Burnley 4 Co.. Louisville, KY, 2teel
Plows, Crltivators, 80, EEA
Hoover s a.. sfiamsburg. Ohio. Reapers
slO0. com ofned $3.50, Iron and Wood Frames
II. 8 in, and feet cut.
Isaac Straub & Co.. Mil Machinery, all
kinds. II IL ..I .-TFF
Florence and Wilcox & Gibbs Sewing Ma
chimes, or any other you may prefer
W. ID. Meriwether & Co.'S Plows, Harrows.
&c.
Whitfield, Bates & Co.'S Castings, Iron
Fences, Tobacco Screws, &c. ltE : ff4i-
John s. Dawner & Sons Nursery, Fruit.
Floral, Ornamental Trees, including 10000
mature Grape Vines of my raising or any
thing else In this line, from Flushing, N.
Y. to California. J p. H.; PORTER,
Feb. p. 74-Tf.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04

THE Whigand Tribune says thatsix
hundred and fifty houses have been built
in Jackson since 1870, and, in the same
time its population has increased 3,075.
Not wishing to make our contemporary
feel small" we will not compare
notes with him just now We will,
however, congratulate him upon the
growth of his town, and the public
spirit that is building it up so rapidly.
With this latter element wisely stimu-
lated, cities have been built in the
wilderness-withoutit, villages dry up,
in the most favored localities.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04
THE MASS MEETING.

We invite attention 70 the call, in
another column for r..ss- ..ce.:cS -
the courthouse, on the first Monday.
in May. As we understand it, the OBJ
ject of said meeting is to devise ways
and means for harmouizing the dis
cordant elements which so fatally mar
the unity of the opposition to Radical
ism, and thus prepare those elements
to unite, in one harmonious whole in
future elections. The discord of
which we speak, arises from no differ
ence of opinion upon the leading issues
involved liz the contest between Radi-
cal usurpation and tyranny, on the one
side, and constitutional liberty, on the
other, but in the mode of organizing
and bringing before the people, candi-
dates for Office, who are worthy of
public confidence. Ii is no eompli-
ment to popular intelligence and in
tegrity, that so small thing as the
reckless ambition of few men, can
clog, or stop, the wheels of progress
towards the eradication of political
evils of the most oppressive and de-
grading character.
1t is, nevertheless, true, that the
people, who ought to be masters of the
situation, are the mere playthings OF
ofice-seekers whose claims to public
confidence are founded upon no speci-
al fitness-no equivalent services rem
dered.
If the meeting, called for, can
concoct plan whereby aspirants can
be made to wait until the Offices seek
them, and impress upon the people
that they have the power and ought to
have the will and the wisdom to select
competent men for Office and to signify
their choice, in any manner that may
be agreeable to themselves, 1.-THE
meeting will receive the plaudlts OF an
approving and grateful people. Hop
ing for some such, or approximate, re-
sults, we cordially endorse the call
aud earnestly'solict the attendance Of
the best men in the county. The No
vember elections will be the turning
point in the political destiny of Ten
nessee. A victory then will be per-
manent conquest, whilst defeat will be
followed by the disasters which charac-
terized the johnson Brownlow rule
Let old Montgomery come boldly uI
to the work of reform, and set an ex-
ample worthy of imitation throughout
the State,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04

GRANT says he has no power to in
terfere With State affairs Did he know
of the thousand men, sent by the navy
Department to Portsmouth to carry
the State of New Hampshire for his
own party? Does he know that the
Navy Department is doing the same
thing in Connecticut, by herding vo-
tiers in the New London navy yard. II
he be cognizant of these facts, they
are done by his permission, but if he is
ignorant of them, he owes to his ignor-
ance his total unfitness to watch over
the best interests of his country.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04
TO THE PEOPLE.
A Cali.
Grand Mass Meeting.

1t is well known that unmindful of
the rule which oppressed us during the
four years prior to 1869, forgetting the
burden of debt laid upon US by an ir-
responsible government and the exae-
tons to which force compelled US to
submit, strangely forgetting the long
and painful struggle by which We
emancipated ourselves. we are drifting
at rapid pace, solely by our own d.
visions, back into the clutches of the
very party which inaugurated and car
ried out the system Of oppression, by
which State was bound and handed
over to merciless plumber, people dis
franchised, and deprived of civil rights
held by tenure as old as Anglo
Saxon civilization, a defenceless people
insulted, stripped and bruised 1t is
| hoped that there could never be a re-
petition of a chapter so full of horrors;
but there is surely enough in the very
thought of yielding the State again to
| its authors, to make us pause and de-
liberate. Grant that much has been
done in the past four years which
ought not to have been done, and much
| left undone which ought to have heen
done, it is well to enquire whether we
cannot unite and retain power, in the
State, working out for ourselves needed
reforms. 1t is certain that we have
already placed the finances of the
! State on satisfactory basis, and lifted
! up the fallen credit of Tennessee, while
peace, law and order reign where all
! was anarchy and crime.
If there are reforms needed in the
/ criminal code, in the assessment and
revenue laws, and in the cost of Grim
inal prosecutions, surely the people
know what they are and with the in
telligence and honesty of the State in
their ranks, they are, surely competent
/ to the task of applying needed RENE
dies-or shall we seek reform from
| ignorance, and publication from those
who were the authors of great
abuses?
Unfortunate dissensions, however,
and personal issues, and perhaps to
some extent war issues, have divided
! a people. who agree in principle, and
at most have only differed as to per-
sous and methods. They have been
standing aparto on issues which should
not separate patriotic men, and surely
not make them yield their whole line
of battle to their common enemy
We see however everywhere indica-
tons of better feeling, and more
patriotic spirit. Let us therefore close
up the breach by moving up on both
sides, and laying down the principles
on which we are willing to stand, ac-
cepting the cardinal principle that
measures are everything, men moth
ing.
Therefore we call upon and urge all
citizens who feel an interest in the
State, who feel that the public business
is their private business, and recognize
the truth that there can be no individ.
ual prosperity unless we are mindful
of our public duties, to meet in mass
meeting at the Court House, on the
| first Monday in May, to consider
measures of harmony with view
solely to the coming political elections.
Let all come from hill and valley,
plough and anvil, counting house and
workshop.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04


THE Bolivar Bulletin, 10 speaking
of Charles Sumner says: He was q
higher law off-shoot from the colonial
stock, and the POLITICAL cauldrap which
allowed to cool down by his political
friends in or out Of Congress for years
to come We are told that in his dy-
ing hour he said to his friends who
stood around him: Take care of my
Civil Rights BILL The people OF the
South know what that means, and in
their struggle toestablish free schools,
see in it the shadow of cloud which
is calculated from the very nature OF
things to work great and lasting harm
to the children of both races. His
brain was large but his heartwas small.
Peace to his ash $. t7 3-aer o.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04

In an analysis of the returns of the
recent parliamentary elections in Great
Britain, the curious fact appears that,
although the Conservative party elect
ed the majority of the House of Com
mons, the Liberal party had major
ity of the popular votes. The Liberals
polled 1886 votes throughout the
kingdom, and the Conservatives $780,
7S2, Liberal majority of 65.654, al
though the Conservatives get a MAORI
ty of fifty in the House. At the last
parliamentary election, in 1868, the
Liberals had 96,6SS popular majority,
and elected majority of one hundred
and twenty in the House. These fig
ures show in how few hands, compare
lively, the balance of power rests in
Great Britain.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04

The Nashville Banner of Tuesday
says:
An earthquake occurred at Frank
lin Saturday night, which caused great
excitement among the citizens. A low
rumbling sound was heard, EARRING the
houses and causing much fright. w.
S. Campbell, who had recently erected
a house worth $1,000, heard the noise,
and thought burglars were attempting
to break into his domicile, but on
making an examination discovered that
one of the walls had been cracked.
Captain Winston S house was SO Jared,
that he thought also that cracksmen
had invaded his premises. 5000.
Others supposed the rumbling sound
to be that produced by the running of
train, but no train was due at that
time. There was, in fact, general
shaking up of things. ' if'ls a-
A few earthquakes have, at various
times, occurred in Tennessee, but none
that brought about worse results than
that in 1911, when the earth sank and
Reelfoot Lake was made t'
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04
Views Of Charles Francis Adams.


els Adams, in which he says
ut appears very unfortunate tina!
the administration of the national e.
nances should ever have been permit
ted to- become entangled with bust
ness having no properconnection there
with. The collection of revenue and
the precise disbursement of funds thus
received being the legitimate duties OF
the Treasury, the power of Congress
to deal with that subject is limited to
the establishment of the form of COIN
age and regulating the value thereof
Congress transcribed its authority
when it assumed the right to issue
promises to pay moneywhich it did not
at the same time provide funds to pay.
The Congressional fulmina ton of le-
gal tenders was no more than rank abb
surdity. If systematic effort to re-
turn to the specie basis is steadily car
ried but by any permanent measures,
business will soon begin to assume
that steadiness of support which it has
not known for years, and which equiv
coating or false promise never can sup
ply ts5
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04

MAJOR HESS, well known here, in
other days. has returned from his
temporary sojourn in st. Louis, and is
now managing editor of the Union
and American. We extend him a
cordial welcome on his return, and
his entrance upon a field of labor that
will give full scope to all his talents
aud energy. We have full confidence,
however, in his ability to meet every
demand upon him.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04
PUBLIC SALE.

By virtue of the authority in me vested
June IS79 by NJ. ID. Bell and registered In
the Registers Office for Mpatsgt1ery conn-
tyTennessee in Tr.ssi iced Book No; !, page
500. will GA Monday, april 18Th. 1874, sell
therein ment;oned 10 the highest bidder
for e.rsh at the Court House door. IN the
City OF Clark svilie, the proceeds 10 be ap:
piled for. the purposes m, men1i9 q IN said
March IL 4w-pfs5. Trustee,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04

In SPAIN, Marshal Serrano claim:
a great victory over the Carlists, and
the latter claim a victory over the for
mer. But for the fact that there had
been, at the time, only one big battle,
there might be no difficulty in belieg-
ing the boast of each party.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04
Western Wheat.

JACKSONVILLE, Ill, March 20
Reports received by the National Crop
Reporter to the 18th of March, of the
condition of the growing wheat, show
that in seven of the heaviest wheat
producing Western States, with the ex-
ception of Indiana, the average is six
per cent. above last year at the same
date: The prospects for full crop
continue excellent.