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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

Those of our people who Thought that
the Democratic successes Of last FAN might
possibly be followed by some reform In
public affairs must be pretty thoroughly
undeceived by this time Tl.as party Will
have large majority In the next House Of
Representatives at Washington, and what
the sourse Of that majority will be is. already
indicated 1t Will go hack as nearly as it
can to the condition Of things before the
war, when its course vas governed alto
gether by the radical Southern. men who
really possess the brains Of the organization.
1t will do nothing at al TO pEomate the
material interests and increase heppesperity
of the nation, bat it wAl do everything 1t
can to hinder and hamper the President
and the Senate IN fulfilling existing laws.
It VIII be in al respects clog and load
upon the country and It's material develop
ment. At Harrisburg, where tie Deno-
Gratis have obtained control Of one bTaneh
of the Legislature, their conduct thus sar
has been any thing but admirable Al
though the session has been running six
weeks the House has accomplished abso-
lutely nothing, but has used uY sbe time
in exhibiting the incorapetence Of the
Speaker and the ineficiency Of the fGajosity
by whom he was chosen. Clea.-l ly no good
results are to be gathered from that source.
And in Philadelphia, in a smaller fed, the
same enmity to good and decent admin
stration of the laws is manifested. The
ticket for police magistrates formed by the
Democratic convention is SO bad that the
best men of the party are disgusted and
instinctively revolt from it. But the
central political authority will listen to no
change, and the city has the prospect be-
fore it of a magistracy partly composed of
the lowest pot-house element. Such being
some of the fruits of Democracy when trust
ed with power, the people at large may well
hesitate before they yield again to its
deceitful professions of reform.-BucL;s Co.,
mteUigencer
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

Piece by piece the Southern press is
throwing aside its fimsy pretenses of 10y
atty to the National Government, and re-
vealing its naked instincts of treason and
rebellion. This, for instance, is the method
which the Shreveport (La) Times would
employ in order to bring about a settle
ment of the questions at issue in that
State:
"Thls policy of peace never had our in
dorsement. We belived, and we believe
now, that the protest of Louisiana against
the wrong upon her Constitution and lib
erty had better have been written in the
blood Of ten thousand men than in the
speech of Speaker Witt we believed, and
we believe now, that the American people
should have risen in their might and forced
the brute Of the White House to reeede
from his Infamous, illegal and tyrannieal
interference with the Legislature of q
sovereinn State. Republics are born in
the midst of battles and evils, innovation:
upon government, corruptions, and wrongs
such as those established by the present
Administration have seldom, if ever, beer
corrected by the civil processes of the law
they gradually engraft themselves upon the
laws and institutions of the country, anC
only the fires of revolution can burn then
out. The revolution must come, and w,
believe 1T better that the American peopl
should confront Grant and his twent,
thousand soldiers in 1875, than that the1
should confront Grant and his three O
four hundred thousand soldiers in 1876.
The people are gradually getting the evi
dence before them. We have little doub
as to what their verdict will be in 1876.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

Monday evening Patrick McE1roy fell
from a bucket on shaft No. 3, of the
Delaware, Laekawanna and Western rail
road tunnel, In Jersey City, and was killed
He is the fifteenth man killed Ia this tunnel
within few weeks.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

Rev Henry S. Miller, pastor of the
Phmnixville Lutheran church, preached
his farewell sermon on the 7th inst. He
is seventy -four years Of age, and during his
ministration has attended 1850 funerals,
and married l ,250 couples
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

Our Y. N. G. a, we are proud to be
able, to say, is in fourishirg condition, and
is largely attended, especially by the young
ladies. The maculine portion of its mem
bership are not so prompti in attendance, but
this, probably, is owing to the fact that they
are allured by the excellent sleighing which
has prevailed for some time, and which af-
fords opportunity for an occasional "trip of
the light fantastic, which is but another
argument in favor of the starting of that
dancing school which we have steadily sug-
gested since the beginning of winter.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

REPORTS from many points in Maine and
and New Hampshire give the mercury as
ranging from 20 to 25 degrees below zero
This was generally the coldest day of the sea-
SON. Many of the harbors along the coast
aye .losed with ice
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

The bids for carrying the mails In the
several States and Territories will aggre-
gate at least sixty thousand Those from
Texas alone, by actual count, reach four
thousand
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

4 MEETING Of the stockholders Of the
Stroudsburg Library Association will be held
on Saturday next Goth inst) at the Library
at three O'Clock, p. NJ, where officers for the
ensuing year will be elected and other import
ant business transacted. A full attendance
is requested Persons having books belong
to the Library will please return them on OF
before said meeting, by order of
ROBT. PITTS, Pres't.
JACKSON L,ANTZ. Sec'y.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

In consequence of the hard times, a Nor
ristown young man was compelled to toss
up cent to decide whether to give up his
pew in church os stop smoking. Fortuna
tely the nickel came down in favor of retain
ing cigars. 1t is thought he would have
tossed a soeaod time if it had not.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18
JACKSON LANTZ, Sec y.

AND now we have another argument in
shape of narrow escape from fire in favor
Of those cisterns which was the subject Of so
much talk a year or more ago, and which we
have endcavored to keep before our people.
THIS time the JET: came near being scorched,
INT was saved the calamity by opportune
discovery. With the utmost care such things
will happen, and il therefore the more strong
ly behooves US to provide the means which an
emergency may at any moment demand.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

Prof j. A. CLEMENTS has accepted the po-
sition of principal in the school near Brod-
headsville. The Prof must have considerable
nerve to accept the position, for rumor says the
scholars have clicked" out the two last teach
ers who have ventured in their midst to learn
the "young ideas how to shoot"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

Hiram Hiles, engineer at the Stockton
breaker, near Hazleton, fell down an icy
stairway at the engine house Monday and
was killed, his neck being broken. He
leaves q wife and two children
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

All ministers, of all denominations,
throughput the country, are requested to
present the subject of intemperance and It's
remedies to their congregations on the day
preceding the 22d of February.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

AT meeting Of the stockholders Of the
Monroe County Agricultural Society, held at
the Court House, on Saturday last, the follow
ing named gentlemen were elected Directors
for the ensuing three years:
John Kern. John B. Storm,
Theodore Schoch, VIM. S. Rees,
VIM s. Wintemute
NJ. VI. Burnett, Esq, was elected for two
years, to Gil the vacancy occasioned by the
death OF Hon. John DeYoung
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

Stoves to the value of 100000 were
turned out last year at the Phoenix Stove
Works at Quincy, Ill. The average num-
Der of employees is about 11O, and the
weekly pay roll 81 400.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

MIR J. T. GARNER lost his pocket book,
containing between fifteen and sixteen dollar
currency, q check of Reuben Miller for
ten dollars and ether notes aud papers, last
Friday morning. On Saturday morn
ing the pocket-b book was found lying on the
pavement in front Of VIM. Davis Office, con-
tanning all the papers but the money gone.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

In the suit of Susanna Lesher against
the city of Reading to recover damages for
the loss of her husband, caused by his
wandering into the Schuylkill canal at a
dangerous point and drowning, the jury on
Saturday morning rendered verdict in
favor Of the plaintiff for $4,000. Counsel
FOR the city filed 9 motion for q new trial
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

No we didn't get one of those valentines,
either good bad or indifferent. We never
did get one-we never expect to-we never
want to. We are too old, and our mind has
run far head of sublunary affairs of that
,,haract.r
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

ED i. Wolf, formerly with US, but now
~ attache the Scranton Daily Times drop
ped it upon US accidentally and suddenly on
Wednesday of last week, and spent several
days in town. 1t looked quite like old times
10 see him around again He received,
what is always awaiting him here, cordial
welcome to Stroudsburg.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18
Che JeHersonian.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IS. 1875.

THERE was another cold snap in Canada,
New England and the Northwestern States
on Saturday, the thermometer ranging from
zero to forty degrees below.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

Go aud see the grand Panorama of the
Messiah on exhibition in the NJ. e. Church,
East Stroudsburg, tonight. The most elab-
crate pen description would fail to convey
the faiutest idea of the grandeur of the pain
tugs.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

FRIEND ScHoCH Please insert the follow
ing p'.zzJe in your valuable paper.
One r, two O's, one J, one T, two US,
one l., two Fs. one Y, one II.
Place them in regular order and you will
have the answer. A. j. V.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

Typhoid fever is prevailing to great
extent in the vicinity of McAlisterville,
Juniata county At the Soldiers Orphans
School at that place there are twenty eight
pupils Ill.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

The proprietor of the Stroudsburg House
j. just the kind of property owner we have
needed here for years. Not content with
more than thrilling the size of the Strouds-
turg house, he has hardly got half through
with the one job before he conjures up
another He is now gathering brick and
other material on the ground to make exten-
sive additions to the brick building which
forms the rear portion of the hotel. Weun-
derstand that the Improvement contemplates
an addition of twenty feet to the length of
the brick, and another story over the whole
Of that part. When completed, with its gas
and water connections the Suoudsburg House
will be one Of the finest hotels in the country,
as it will be sure to be, under the manage
Inent Of friend Whitesell, one of the best
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

Sr. VALENTINE had his day on Sunday
last, and very quiet day it was too. The
little chaps, and big ones too, both of the
hemale and female persuasions, found other
days on which to send their tender missives,
aud on Monday and Tuesday, they went it
with a rush. And they were of all sorts and
sizes, the etc, the thetic, the pathetic, the
sympathetic, and the burlesque, ranging from
the refined and more costly from the course
caricature retailed at penny. the latter as
usual predominating. And some were mad
and others glad as a matter of course
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

The Adams Express Company has de-
clared its usual quarterly dividend of two
dollars per share.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

In Chicago the daily newspapers have
been in dicted for publishing lottery adver-
tisementS
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

A fast express train on the Reading
Railroad, recently ran twelve and a haif
miles in twelve and half minutes.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-18

Mr.. THEo. J. BUNRETT, for the past FIVE
years employed as head clerk in S. Fried's
clothing and notion store, severed his con-
nection with that establishment last Satur-
day. Mr. B., is one of the most efficient
and accomplished clerks in town, and by
his gentlemanly department won a host Of
friends In the spring he will take charge
of clothing store, at Towanda, Pa, to be
opened by Mr. johnson Bush, of this place.
Y. NJ. C. A-The Regular monthly
meeting of the Association will take place
in their rooms on Friday Feb. 10Th at 7:30
P. NJ The following Programme will be
observed
An Essay by Rev. j, F. Chaplain D. D.
Select Readings by the members of the
Association. Music by Amateurs.
A cordial invitation is extended to the
public. All young men desirous of pro
noting social enjoyment and intellectual
culture are invited to take part in the
formation of a Literary Society under the
auspicies of the Association. By order
of the Association. w. B. BELL, Sec.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-03

IN AN arTEi: NCNDAl, tE"EE-
Il tIY =. loij.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-03

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Gl'}-, &" Il
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-03
MOTTO. TO II.saGiUEac.

= DY'yCE - niE:.lty GIVEN 80
y "a pee, - l.,'t,,IrG AZ 'la.nihg iiers I'm
G..r IN, prrNl-.rus Il m Act Iae.sa l., III
L,-i-i.turt 81 N,NaCa, eutit.o ~ Art I" ..
cuT, n,14s i, mechanics &liG o;ht r.. AID t. Ia
r,.l, III Other ACES IL +, tatton thectto." aFpIoV-
i March eth, 1871, IN tn, building OF dN".liA|
house I, longing Ia 81. l.. DOW. and the prem
ISIS stlirDaudinE rAl fam. situate III tn County
of Grlit,lrY .4.I STATE ct NeXada cn lots :, and
in block No :inptC,u nHI. Gun = a. iSiou 81
the town al Carson City, t" he slu appear III tic
justice court. C"Ton township. county ard
ststt aturrsaid, l. i6rt c. i. With rvn, Justice
of the Peace il. and for sait township, On the
sth day Of March A. ID. 1875,
Mt 10 O'Clock 4 VI. and to exhibit then and
there the proof Cf thu II raid il r..
f,li.td 5. DICKSON.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-06

This reproach deepened into remorse
when, the farewells spoken and the beauti-
full, radiant presence vanished, she found
her walls and table ornamented with good
by gifts. There were the photographs
she had most admired, the books, even the
Madonna, ivory painted and velvet-swung,
all left for her by her sweethearted rival.
A mist of penitent tears dimmed her
eyes; but, in spite of pennitence and of
of the wheels which bore his charmer
away was like the sound which breaks
sharply into some fantastic dream.
Metaphorically speaking, he rubbed his
eyes. For day or two he hung about,
vacant and listless; then he reused, as
DESTROYS to pick up dropped threads again.
Somehow Amy was more difficult to ap-
proach than of yore. A little veil rested
between them She was not always to be
had when wanted We value what we
work for, what we hold with some trem-
bling sense of insecurity. As weeks went
on Phil grew to prize Amy more than
ever. The knowledge that he had half
lost her intensified his love. 1t required
months to win his way back to the old
place. But at last
:" And you are quite, quite sure that you
care most for me?" whispered Amy,
saucily, the night after their engagement.
Mostf Altogether, you mean. There
is no other"
" Not even Miss Ashurstp"
Not even Miss Ashurst; though
and Phil lifted his cap as before a queen
she 10 sumner, real lady, every inch
Of her, and as good as she is beautiful.
Bless her!"
And bless her, say we. Noblesse o6Eige
Bazdr.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-06
Giving Up the Dolls.

MAY was getting so tall that it looked
perfectly silly" for her to be playing
with dolls So, at least, Jess, Nays sis
ter, said-and jess was fifteen years old
and ought to have known what was prop
er and what wasn't.
May was such little mother and loved
her dolls so much that don't believe Jess
alone could ever have made her give them
up; but even mamma began to hint
strongly about patchwork quilts and
usefulness and when at last she came
out with brilliant offer of a set of gray
squirrel furs for next winter, If May would
give up the doll babies and " be woman, /"
May couldn't stand out against SO much
and she went up stairs that night with her
mind made up.
She took all the dolls she could find
handily into bed with her, and l, believe
she cried a little as she Rugged them up
close and thought it was the last time.
The next morning was bright and sunny
and May went around the house gathering
up her children.
Her mother had suggested to her that
she might keep one or two of the best
ones and threw aside the others; but
May didn't intend to show any partially.
She gathered up every baby, from Pet
Rosa, with her sweet blue eyes, TO the
small, no-headed darky, with his cum
ming little coat and vest.
She piled them all together in large
paper-box and putting on her sun-bonnet
went out at the back door when nobody
was looking on-for the poor little mother
| felt so miserable that she didn't want any
body to ask her where she was going.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-06
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

1T is authoritatively stated that no less
than 1872 percent of the warnings issued
by John Bulls "Old Probabilities dur
ing 1874 were justified by subsequent
weather.
AN English lady and her son died few
days ago at Heidelberg, poisoned by eat
ing mushrooms. The gentleman and a
younger brother gathered them in the
woods, and, on returning to their board
ing house, ordered them to be cooked for
their supper, against the advice of the
landlady.
A CHUNK of milk solidified and weigh
ing about 100 pounds, and which {" had
been exposed TO the action of the air for
four years and three months" was lately
shown at the rooms of the Society of Arts in
London, and the Agricultural Gazette of
that city says q its quality was still SO ex-
cellent that in a few minutes it was re-
solved by churning into good fresh but
ter"
THE women of the Karen tribes in Chi
nese Burmah wear rings of thick brass
wire bent around the wrist and elbow and
again around the knee and ankle, cOpfln-
ing them so in every motion that they can
not possibly squat down on the ground in
the usual Oriental fashion, or kneel to
pray, as the men do, while in walking
their feet make two separate tracks foot
OT 50 apart
ONE of the Theoretically sealed bottles,
| in wooden cases, thrown overheard during
Prince Napoleon's polar voyage in 1860
has recently been found at the mouth of the
Seine, near Havre. One such bottle was
thrown out daily during the month of
June while the expedition was within the
| Arctic circle, and none of them have been
seen since until the one above mentioned
was washed ashore, after a voyage of hf-
| teen years and many thousands of miles.
The Paris correspondent of the London
| Times writes: From reliable infOrma-
| ton which have received it appears that
| Garcia Moreno, the late President of Ecua-
dor, was assassinated by members OF 3
secret society, which has branches all over
South America ard even in Europe. Lots
were drawn to select the murderer, who
entered the Presidential palace at Quito.
| One of the accomplices, an officer, who
was caught after the assassination, was
Told by the President of the court martial
before whom he was tried that his life
would be spared if he would give up the
names of his associates. My life he re-
piled, would be worthless; for if you
spared me my comrades would not. ]
| would rather be shot than poniarded,'
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-06

fences in the English language by words
embraced in the preceding paragraph.
Pr" can be made by dropping a +" form, -
! or by any device that will mix the types.
"Pi'' has caused many pious editor to
fall from grace.
The g form" is not " the human form
divine" nor that other "pull-back' kind,
in type, "made up" and "locked" in the
chase''-a frame holding the type as
ready for the press. The makeup
is the arrangement of the matter in
the order of its publication, and the
feeder" the person who feeds the press.
Lines do not always fall in pleasant
places, but here they are used to designate
the size of type to be used. Ads" are
things the proprietor always welcomes,
business community. "Ads'' add to the
prosperity of both. The shooting stick"
is used for driving up the "quoins'' to
fasten the type in the " chase" the "com-
posing stick holds the type the printer is
setting; the "quad," which has the form
of type without the letter, is used for
spacing and also for estimating the
amount of the printers work. Among
the various kinds Of type are caps" for
case'' for ordinary or not capital letters,
diamond. pearl, agate, nonpareil, minion,
BREWER, bourgeois, long primer, plea and
paragon. The column rules" divide the
page into columns; the :" galleys' receive
the type from the composing stick" and
the bank" is where the "galleys" are de-
posted.
The printer who has "sit'' usually
stands when at work. The term denotes
a regular situation or employment, and al
though 90 rats" run about the country,
especially at the present time,s in large
numbers, they are seldom found in reg
ulariy organized printing establishment.
The .raf'' is not member of the Typo
graphical Union and has less chance, as
general thing, among the regular " sits''
than would his namesake in kennel of
terriers. The regular member of the
(" Union, - whenever he leaves for another
part of the country, procures s. card, ;"
which vouches for his membership and
may enable him to get q case" in what
ever locality he may visit.-N 7. Graphic.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-06

with one Captain who allus carried thou-
sand bottles of Imminent to throw over to
the wounded onesr'

with one Captain who allus carried thou-
sand bottles of Imminent to throw over to
the wounded onesr'
He did?"
"True as you live, he did. I DOM
'spect I'll ever see another such a kind
Christian man. And the allygaters got to
know the Nancy Jane, and to know Capt.
Tom, and they'd swim out and rub their
tails agin the boat an purr like cats, am
hook up and try to smile!''
"They would?''
"Solemn truth, stranger. And once
when we grounded on q bar, with an op-
gathered around, got under her stern, and
bumped her clean over the bar by grand
pushl 1t looks like a big story, but !
never told a lie yet, and 1 never shall.
wouldn't lie for all the money you could
put aboard this boat"
There was q painful pause, and after q
while the pilot continued;
"Our injines gin out once, and crowd
of allygaters took a tow-linc and pulled
us forty five miles up stream to Vicks-
burgr'
"They did9"
"And when the news got along the river
that Capt. Tom was dead every alligator
in the river daubed his left ear with black
mud as a badge of mournin', and lots of
'em pinned away and diedl"
The passenger left the pilot-house with
the remark that he didn't doubt the state
ment, but the old man gave the wheel a
turn and replied:
"Thar's one thing I won't do for love
nor money, and that's make liar of N.Y.
self. Twas brung up by q good mother, and
I'm going to stick to the truth if this boat
doesn't make a cent. Vicksburg Herald.