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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-11-30
ASOTazER TROPHY WON
BY THE
ESFEY COTTAGE ORGANS /

These superior and beautifully finished in
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volume, purity, sweetness and delicacy Of tone,
as to carry off the first and only preniium Civ
en to exhihitors.of reed Organs at the Monroe
County Far heldSeptember -, 1874.
Buy only the best For price list address
Oct l-tG 0 J. Y SIGAFUS,r
DLANKs OF.AfL KINDS for -sale at
- tl-is Office.
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UNDERTAKING! ]. Ii. MCCARTHY & SONS

having long been disgusted with the barbarous
custom Of burying using Ice on Corpses, not
to speak of the horror Of freezing the dead, as
a relic of barbarism in itself considered, it as
obnoxious to the sensibility of the refined as
Cremation; and would never have been submit
ted to but for necessity. which thanks to the
march of discovery no longer exists, for J..
III. McCarty & Sons, have preparation which
in Its application is AS harmless as water, but
which in its potency is able 10 grapple with the
despoiler of our mortal forms, and say thus far,
but no further, hence let thy corruptiDg pow
ers be stayed.
This preparation is manufactured, and used
only by D. II. McCARTY a. Sons, the only
Undertakers in the County, or State, that can
keep Corpse any desired length of time,-for
weeks and months, and bring back eUen the
mellow tint and real bloom of life to assnage
the grief and anguish Of the bereaved, which
fact can be witnessed at every funeral attended
by them where they have the entire control,
and the preparation of the body for burial.
j. ii. McCARTY has made this preparation his
study for over twenty years, and can now offer
to the public this preparation perfected, with
out money and without price to those employ
ing them
Oct. ), '76-tf] j. II. MCCARTHY & SONS.
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Goods selling every day at Auction prices
from a. M, to & p N. = q Gods selling atghalf
price to maks room for their new fall goods
Oct. 5, rs. MIcCARTY & SONS.
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SHOE MANUFACTORY,

for the making of MI kinds Of Ladys and Gentlemens
and Children'S Boots and Shoes aud Uppers Paricu-
lar attention paid
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A SHOE MANUFACTORY,

The undersigned would respectfully give notice that
they have established at Williams Hall building cor
of George and Monroe streets Stroudsburg, Pa a
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HEADsTONES, Sc,
A CLASSICAL SCHOOL

the basement the Lutheran Church. Stroudsburg
Pa. The aim of this school is;
First, furnish practical education for the ord-
nary pursuits of life:
Secondly give special attention TO the classics and
higher English studies
Thirdly, prepare young men for Colleges and Uni
versitcs.
No efforts will be spared TO make our sehoo-rOom the
the attractive in the county.
Our work recommend US.
Tuition per term of ten weeks common English
branches. $500.
Latin, Greek and German, each one dollar per term
extra.
The first session hegins Monday, October f6, 1876
For particulars address the Principal,
GEO q. EUNKLE, A n,
Stroudsburg.
or Rey. J. KOIILIiTs, Stroudsburg, Pa
REFEREScEs: Rev. r. A. Muhlenberg. Allentown !
Rev J. Kohler. Hon. J. T. Storm, A. .. Grronwad, j.
Appenzeior, Str9udshury, Pa
Strqudsbure, sept. q, 1876
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LEE & Co. would most respectfully an
nounce that having procured an elegant
HEARSE -

and having a person in their employ of
twelve years experience, in the underra king
business. are now prepared to attend to un-
dertdking IN all its branches in the best pos
sble manner.
COFFiNS and CASKETS of any size,
style or quality, constantly on hand. and
ready for shipment at short notice Orders
by mail promptly attended to- Our charges
are moderate; we have no disposition 10
distress the living or rob the estates OF the
dead.
n. B-Ready-made ROBES. neatly got
len up. can be had any time, at the Ware
Room of LEE g. Co.
May 26, I-70.-ly.
The New York herald., 1876-02-10
Give Them Free straps.

correspondent calls our attention to the
amusing objection of the Sun to the general
desire that when a passenger rides in a car
he should have seat. The Sun thinks that
this is a violation of the passengers right to
stand up if he wishes to do so. No one
questions this right and since the Sun so
gallantly comes to the rescue of the COM
panies it would be good idea for the Presi-
dent of the Third Avenue Railway Company
to send the editor free strap for the season
The question at issue is simple. A fare
should mean seat. If we pay for a roll
or crumpet we want something to eat. Ii
we buy cigar we desire something to
smoke. If we ride in a car we are entitled
to seat Standing up in the cars and hold
ing on to the straps is an annoyance to the
passengers who are seated. They are enti-
tied to be free from this when they enter the
cars. The passenger who holds the strap as
we'll as the passenger whose toes are trampled
are all entitled to their rights, and espe-
cially the right of taking the ride for which
they pay in a comfortable manner.
There is one way in which the criticism Of
the Sun could be met. Let there be
cars without seats and with liberal
supply of straps for passengers who object
to being deprived of the right to go dangling
home from their places of business. Our
point is that when a passenger pays for a
seat he should have it. If he only wants q
strap the company will, we have no doubt,
be glad to establish a ''strap line" for his
accommodation.
The New York herald., 1876-02-10
Cireumstances Alter Cases.

1t is not to be expected that General Bah
cocks counsel will permit his case to be tried
in any other than a strictly legal way, or
that they will fail to take advantage on his
behalf of every technicality of the law. In
deed, if they should fail in this they might
justly be charged with delinquency in their
duty to their client. But as their defence
spreads itself at the very threshold on
quibbles and objections, and cavils on the
ninth part of hair in every point it makes
all those who remember what they read from
day to day will recur to the attitude so gal
lantly taken by Babcock and his friends when
the famous "court of inquiry" was called
for. They felt then that his honor as a sol
dier was at stake, and they were solicitous
that it might receive no stain, and held that
an ample and immediate investigation into
the facts and into the very nature of the case
was imperatively necessary, They wanted
an investigation where legal technicalities
might neither save nor ruin. 1t was recog-
nized by them that trials in courts of law
may by the ingenuity of counsel be turned
to one side or another, and actually leave the
real issue as to mans guilt or innocence
untried, and even untouched Words could
scarcely picture the dismay with which they
contemplated any such unfortunate issue in
the case of the Presidents secretary, and
hence their eagerness to take the case out of
the ordinary channels to put it before
board of officers who would try it on its
merits, and would not condemn the man
who might be only technically guilty, but
would not absolve him who might be only
technically innocent. But they have evidently
changed their mind about technicalites;
or is it that the counsel try the case as they
please? From whatever reason the difference
arises it cannot help the case in public
opinion and it is as much ON trial in the
public opinion as it is before the Missouri
Jury. In this case the moral and legal as
poets are related very much as they were in
the case of Mr.. Beecher. People did not
want to know, in the Beecher case, if there
was evidence that would convict the accused
in the minds of the jury but they did want
to know if he was guilty. In the case of the
secretary people do not want to know
whether he can be proved guilty, or whether
the dexterity of counsel may cloud the evil
dence so that he shall just escape but they
want to know if official corruption has
actually made its way into the White House.
and they will make up their minds on this
not merely from what the jury says when all
is over, but from what is said by counsel on
the trial and still more from what counsel
endeavors to suppress.
The New York herald., 1876-02-10
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Blaine is getting fat
Californans are bothered with silver.
An English book prove that State aid TO pau.
pers really produces pauperlsm.
A Charleston &. C. goose talks good English, and
excels the average Congressman.
beautiful and aristocrac Louisville girl Of
teen smokes short black clay pipe filed with tho
strongest plug tobacco. She initiates Carlyle
Mr. Bodwel, Superintendent of tho weIand Canal,
has concluded arrangements with the Minister OF
Public Works for the management ofthat work.
St. Louis woman tried to commit suicide by taking
dose OF pins evidently thinking she'd want them
pin back her angel overskirt in the other world.
II was Prince John Van Buren who being stopped
by hghwaymen night in the City Hall Park, said
"Gentlemen, haven't got any money, but I'll give
you my note for three months"
A ..son of Seventy-six" is anxious to know how
Charles Francis Adams and John Jay would do for tho
Centennial ticket Adams the grandson Of the glorious
leader Of liberty; Jay the grandson Of washingon's
favorite counsellor and friend
Sir Walter Scott is said have written dictated
the whole or 'sThe Bride Of Lammermoor" in a morbid
condition of body under intensely concentrated
an excitement of mind that hOtould not recall writing
anv part OF the story his afterward and heard
nas II IL were all new TO him.
DR. Won Bnow said in Chicago:-"I tell YOU the
only reason why play Beethoven, Scnumann. Men.
dclssohn and all these because the gigantic ieno
ramus with the inevitable beer Elass-the German
music teacher in Amerca-has interpreted so many Of
these badly. would rather from choice play Wagner
and Liszt"
In reply to our advertisement for rhyme for Conk.
ling, apropos OF campaign song "The Spirit Of Lord
Byron" sends
The Blaine OF Maine would throw HIM OF
Still Roscoe bold would on cling
And General Grant said, Boys can't
Go back on curly Conkngr
An American in Liverpool said Tive Just asked
'em where they kept their barber shop They told mo
there was ono on the opposite side Of the square They
call this arst class hotel This is nice country this
tai snftsp
The New York herald., 1876-02-10
An Alabama Claim.

In the case of the Texan Star it was pre-
eminently desirable that she should present
herself as British ship to the eyes of Ad-
miral Semmes as he sailed, as he sailed, and
on the other hand, that she should present
herself as an American ship to the eyes of
any Court that might inquire into the case
1t all happened just the other way, because,
perhaps, it was done on Friday, or for some
other reason equally sound and nautical. To
Semmes the ship was fragrant Yankee, and
he burned her; to the Court which is politely
requested to pay for her out of the fifteen
million dollars she seems regularly docu-
mented Britisher, and the Court, it is ar
gued, must, therefore, Eefuse to pay for her.
Her history is somewhat tangled, but not
badly, and like the tangled web of pious
rhyme, it resulted from the attempt to de-
ceiye. She was an American until she got to
India, in 1863, and then, as the Alabama was
in the neighborhood-and as in those cir
cumstances the Stars and Stripes at the mast
head was worse than thousand barrels of
petroleum in the hold with regard to fire
she was sold to British subject, who did
not pay for her, but gave mortgage for more
than the purchase price She went out
as his ship, with regular papers But
Semmes, the moment he sighted her,
Some miles away, saw by the cut of her jib
what country she came from, and he stopped
her. Her papers, therefore, were put to an
immediate and troublesome test. They
wara raouirad to raynova from b;a mind tha
impression made by the sight of the ship and
his recognition of her national character or
to assure him that to touch her would COM
plicate his relations with England. They
did neither He burned her on the ground
that she was Yankee, with trumped up pa
pers. But the papers that were not good
enough for him are good enough in the eyes
of our government lawyers, who say that the
transfer to a British owner was regular in
all respects properly made, and that she was a
British ship, and for this reason she should
not be paid for out of the great indemnity.
But the Court has not yet said this. In case
it does we must write on the documents, as
the postmasters do on misdirected letters,
'Try England" If England refuses, why
Semmes himself is somewhere in Alabama,
or those parts, and the owners might try
him. Perhaps he will pay. In Paris
they sued Courbet to make him pay for the
Vendoms Column, which he helped to cast
down, and if the owners of few ships
would sue Semmes for their value-they
might get it.
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

Public Works" we discover, again ''under
the War Department, demand of Mr.. Bel
KNAPP for So, 044, 900 for Notifications and
other works of defence, against an appro-
priation of $S15, 900 last year. Is not this
also rather steep for year of retrenchment2
We are not going to be attacked we need
not waste this prodigious sum of money in
tinkering at fortifcations the most of which,
when they are completed, will be of no use,
because earthworks alone will keep out the
heavy shot now used in attack. Under Mr..
Belknap's regular estimates he demands one
and quarter millions for armament of for
tifcations ;" last year Congress gave him
seventy-6ve thousand dollars. But besides
the one and quarter millions he proposes
quietly to spend over two millions more, un-
der a separate head, but substantially for the
same purpose. What is the sense in such
extravaganza?
We have not nearly done with Mr. Bel
knap's accounts, and shall have to return to
them again. But we have shown the demo-
Gratis where they can save even without any
material reduction of the army, and by
merely insisting on proper economy, sum
not less than six or seven millions and we
believe it might be made to amount to eight.
We propose to show them another day
where they may make still further econo-
mics in the War Department, which seems to
be extravagantly managed in almost every
part. We confess our own surprise at the dis
coyeries we have made in this matter We had
always supposed Mr.. Belknap to be one
of the most rigid economists our public SER
vice has ever known. We think it pity
that he has not been able to bring into his
department the same genius for making both
ends meet handsomely which has distin-
guished him in the management of his own
affairs He came to Washington poor; he
has had a modest salary of eight thousand
year and no perquisites, and on this, to the
surprise and admiration of all his friends, he
has been able to maintain an elegant house.
hold, to obtain certain fame for the excel
lence of his dinners to keep carriages with
outriders, and altogether to accomplish what
many a man of three or four times his in
come, but with poorer business habits, finds
it difficult to do If he had served the pub
lie with as rigid economy his praises would
be in all the newspapers, and he might even
be numbered among the great host of Presi-
Dental candidates.
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

THE FATAL FRONT PLATFORM In our
court reports will be found a suggestive case
showing the willingness of the horse car mo-
nopolies to have young mans leg broken
in getting off the front platform without any
desire to compensate the young man for the
same. In defiance of their printed rules the
companies try to make the sardine-packing
process as little bar to running trips on
time as possible by hustling passengers on
and off the front platforms at the risk of their
lives The companies, we see, insist that a
man should be privileged to stand in car
if he likes standing Fifty-fve such men is
the Third Avenues limit, while the Second
Avenue can take ffty-eight. All these men,
too, should, the companies believe, be
allowed to break their legs or their necks in
getting of or on if it is their pleasure They
would not, moreover do this at the COM
panies' expense, if the arguments of the lat
ters' lawyers were law.
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

''No SEAT No FARE. The bill intro
duced into the Assembly by Mr.. Killian
providing that horse car companies shall
under the penalty of a fine of one
hundred dollars for every such neg
lect, is threatened by the railroad
lobby with suffocation in committee. We
should like to know what, the members OF
The bill is printed in full elsewhere. We
can promise the lobby, the committee and
the Legislature in general that it shall not
be lost sight of.
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

ENGLAND SEEMS TERRIBLY ANXIOUS to get
Egypt head and ears in her debt, and her
Egypt's wish to get somebody to be in debt
to- The new loans which the Anglo-Egyp-
tian Bank has contracted to advance to
Egypt amount to eighty million dollars
The immense monetary reserve of England
can be judged from the way she sets about
buying up the imperial valley of the Nile
and .'fxins,' but the impetuosity with
which the successor of the Ptolemies rushes
to the sale suggests what Wall street would
term ''a sell all round"
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

THE LOUISIANA RADICALS have shaped .
measure for keeping the State republican by
creating Returning Board of three repub-
licans and two democrats, in which the
majority can throw out the votes of any elec-
toral division they please. The section de-
scribing the pretexts under which this can be
done is printed elsewhere, and for infamous
audacity and defiance of every citizen right
is without parallel in the history of in
famous and audacious republican misrule at
the South. 1t is a good democratic cam
paign document, and it remains to be seen
whether it will not prove too strong for even
the ostrich stomach of the rule-or-ruin re-
publcans at Washington.
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

How TO GET THE INSURGENTS in the Turk
ish provinces to lay down their arms and iet
the Porte try Andrassys plan of reform upon
them is nice problem. A denial has been
sent to the statement that the six consuls at
Mostar had received instructions to begin
the task. Whatever truth there may be in
either the report or its contradiction the
means taken to pacify the rebels for the pur-
pose of giving the Turks another chance to
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

ment, 1t seeks an outlet of escape. which it,
as general rule. finds. Now. if the surfac,
of the continent is liberating heat in excess
of the natural loss by radiation the effect
on the advancing storm will soon be OBJ
served We take an opportunity of recon-
mending increased vigilance to the sanitary
authorities during the coming spring and
summer. We are passing through a season
of great peril to the health of the city of
New York
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

A SENSITIVE Soul is NJ. Renault, the Paris
Prefect of Police, who has resigned his office
because he is running for the new Assembly
at Corbeil. We have citizens here who have
run for State governorships and held on to
udgeships and such positions until the
returns were all in. The Frenchman's plan
has better moral look
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

WHEN BISMARCK says, I'VE live in a state
of the most profound peace; we have no
wish for conquest; we are contentod with
what we possess; we have no thought of
threatening any one" il is high time to look
out for declaration of war in some direc-
ton. OF course Germany needs peace, but
Prince Bismarck should not say so lest the
sceptical should doubt it.
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

The TorAL MONEY Losses by the Broad
way fire will not, il is thought, reach more
than three million dollars, which is said to
be pretty well covered by insurance. The loss
of life is already known. 1t is not so easy,
however, to gauge the criminality of construct
ing such lumber piles in the business heart Of
a great city, and we could point to a great
many other pretentious buildings in New
York which are only awaiting stray un-
auenched cigar stump, match on the floor
a faint breath OF fame, as it were, to spread
similar, if not greater, disaster This is
a good time to begin an examination of them.
The New York herald., 1876-02-10
vindication OF Secretary Bri.tow.

We published a few days since long COM
munication from Atlanta. Ca, purporting to
be circumstantial statement of facts con.
Meeting Mr.. Bristow with an alleged Presi.
Dental intrigue in the Southern States. and
asserting that he is actively employing the
patronage of his office in that section of the
country to influence the choice of delegates
to the Republican National Convention.
One of our Washington correspondents
has undertaken to investigate the statements
of the Atlanta letter, and, as the result OF
his inquiries, he feels justified in contra
dieting both the main allegation and the
particular facts cited to support it.
The writer at Atlanta gave such an
air of circumstantial plausibility to
his narrative, and furnished so many
clews for testing his accuracy, that IN
vestigation has not been difficult, and the
result, as will be seen, is a complete exon
Grafton of Secretary Bristow from the charge
of seeking the Presidency by the vulgar
methods of ordinary politicians. If the
country has thought of him as a candidate it
is solely in consequence of the resolute
and successful energy of his magnificent
campaign against official corruption. He
ought to have sagacity enough to perceive
that if he has any chances they rest solely
on that basis, and that he would only
weaken them and sully the lustre of a bright
and enviable record if he should descend
to the level of wire-pulling schemers. Sec
retary Bristow has strongly intrenched him
self in the confidence and esteem of his fell
low citizens, and not even the Presidency
would be worth purchasing by acts which
would cause any abatement of the warm
public approval which he has SO nobly
earned. -
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

THy SIX MILLION SUIT against the fugitive
Tweed was progressed little yesterday,
when Garvey, the Ring plasterer, swore to
the thievish doings of his confederates. The
senior counsel for the defence, in his usual
able manner, assailed the newspapers in the
course of the proceedings, it being believed
to be necessary preliminary exercise to
some of his herculean labors.
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

The CARLIsTs are announced to have as
sumed the offensive at Oyarzun. The heavy
weather reported from the Pyrenees should
be in their favor, preventing, as it would,
The concentration of their foes. The Alton
sists, are impelled by every hope of holding
on to the government of Spain to push
things
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

WESTON well known to our public as a
professional pedestrian who was always at
tempting ''feats of endurance" and, we are
sorry to say, generally falling short of his
tremendous calculations, has been trying
his fortune in England. He has again failed
to accomplish what he started out to do, but
has beaten his opponent, the English cham
pion, Perkins, under circumstances not at
all discreditable The two hundred and
fifty dollar cup can be walked for again.
The New York herald., 1876-02-10

THE REPLY TO Mr.. JAY, which we print in
another column, shows that we were not
mistaken in predicting that his recent COM
ments on the Vienna scandal would lead to
eral Van Buren, send us o joint commune
cation, which we print, because fairness
requires us to give both sides hearing
We take no part in the discussion, and
regret that it occasions SO much acerbity of
feeling.