, 1875-03-11

WHAT A LlGHTNING OTROkE hEVEALED-
An Ohio paper tells very strange
and startling story oe the revelation
made by stroke Of lightaing q few
days since. fhe stroke, it seems, p1os-
trated splendid grove Of oaks in the
Miami Valley. Among them was one
which was rent asunder from top to bot-
tom. and according to the narrator, the
fragment, in falling apart, disgorged q
gannt skeleton, yellow with age, which
instantly fell to pieces and was scatter
ed over several feet Of the surrounding
pasturage. With the remains was also
found few bottles of ancient pattern.
and leather pocket book, in good
state representation. The pocket-book
told the sad and tragic story of the dis
entombed skeleton, It contained pa
pers which we're brown and discolored,
and covered with rude penciling, scarce
ly legible, but enough could be deciph-
cred 10 show that they had been writ-
ten by q soldier in the revolutionary
army-a man in fact who had been an
aid and companion to Gen. Washington.
His name was Roger Vanderburg. and
he held the rank of captain
After participating in the privations
Of Valley Forge, and in the retreat
across the Jerseys, and serving a brief
time at West Point, ne marched xit4
St. Clair, against the Northwestern In
dians. On Nov. 3, 1871, he was wound
ed and and captured by the redskins.
He subsequently escaped, however,
and being hard pressed by his sayage
foes, he took refuge in this oak tree.
The hollow afforded convenient re-
treat. and he allowed himself to drop
into it. Then. too late, he had miscal-
culated the depth of the hollow, and
there was no escape. The remaining
hours of his life were spent in writing a
diary, the entries of which show o te-,i.
BILE record ofahuman suffering and DUR
ing period of eleven days he painfully
described his sensations as he felt him.
self slowly starving to death. Tie ssp.
ry is certainly strange one, and there
is nothing improbable abont it.
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Our NATIONAL REsouRcEs.--M Frank
Hereford, of West Virginia, In the
course Of the tariff debate in Congress,
made remarkable statement by way Of
enforcing economy. He showed that
the total net revenue of the government
from 1889 to 1874 had been a little over
Sc, ,0OO. 600. 900, and that of this sum
more than half-namely, S3,4o0 .N00.-
600, had been raised in eight years, from
1866 to 1874. Further, that the amount
received into the Treasury from 1866 to
1874 was greater by seven hundred mill
lions than the whole national debt in
1866. He added that though it was tho
fashion to talk of our poverty and the
prostration of industry being because
the balance of trade was against MS, we.
in fact, exported in the last fiscal year q
value Of nearly nineteen million dollars
more than our imports. He argued
that the people had been impoverished
by extravagance and heavy taxation, not
during the war, but since the vay.
CRUSHED WHEAr.-Some enc asks how
to cook cracked wheat. send daee.
tons for cooking crushed wheat, which
is used more at present; if you use the
ciacked wheat it will need to be cooked
longer. Take two cups of crushed
wheat. four cups of water. and one-half
a cap Of raisins, add 3 little salt and
cook two hours. Ifyou have moi /
double boiler, put your wheat ip ! TN
pail and set this in a kettle. 10 that the
water will boil around it. this will an.
swer % substitute.