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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-07-13
NOTICE TO THE
NOTICE TO THE
TAXPAYERS
MONROE COUNTY.

In pursuance to an Act of Assembly, entitled
"an Act relating to the collection of State and
County Taxes in the county of Monroe" ap-
proved May g. 1867, the county Treasurer
will meet the Taxpayers of said county for
the collection of State and county taxes in and
for the following places, to wit:
In TunkannOck township, Monday July
18th, 1876, at the house of Joseph Newhart
Tobyhanna township, on Tuesday July Is.
at the house of William Shifier, and Wednes-
day July 10, at the house of Isaac Staufer.
Coolbaugh township, on Thursday July 90,
at the house of jerome b. Shaw.
Pocono township, Friday July q, at the
house of Charles Brown.
Jackson township, Saturday July %, at the
house of Smauel Il. Bossard
Ross township, Monday July a, at the
house of Jacob II. Stocker.
Eldred township, Tuesday July %. at the
house of Amandus J. Marsh.
Polk township, Wednesday July 26, at the
house Of joel Kresge.
Chestnuthill township, Thursday July 27, at
the house of Charles Eberle, and Friday July
%, at the house of David Everett.
Borough of East Stroudsburg, Saturday July
%, at the house John Barlow.
Paradise township, Monday July 81, at the
house of James Kintz.
Barrett township, Tuesday August 1st, at
the House of John w. Yothers.
Price township, Wednesday August >, at the
house of Samuel Postens.
Hamilton township, Thursday August 8, at
the House of Josiah Kresge, on Friday Au-
gust 4, at the house of John Rhodes, and on
Saturday August 5, at the house Of Charles
Andrew.
NJ. Smithlield township, Monday August 7,
at the house of jacob II. Place, and Tuesday
August 8, at the house of James Place.
Smithfield township, wednesday August Q, at
the house of Simeon ID. Bush, and Thusday
August 10, at the house of Thomas Brodhead.
Stroud township Friday August II, at Peter
Keller's Mill, and on Saturday August Il, at
the store of Day, Wilcox Il Co.
Borough of Stroudsburg Monday and Tues
day August Ii and ID, at the Treasurer's Office.
Tax papers who avail themselves of this OPP
portunity to pay their taxes, will be entitled
to an abatement of five per cent. For the con-
venience of tax payers visiting Stroudsburg,
the Treasurer will receive any of the above
taxes at his Office. before said days.
LINFOD MARSH, Treasurer.
Treasurer Office, Stroudsburg, June 10, 1876.
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Special N office.

"The safety of the people is the highest law"
was an old lawgiver's maxim. Messrs. Wana-
maker & Brown, at their great Oak Hall
Clothing House in Philadelphia, seems to have
adopted the old maxim. There is absolutely
no risk in buying of them. No mistake of a
salesman, or inexperience of a customer can
ever be taken advantage Of The firm gives to
every buyer guarantee, over their own sigma
ture, covering every possible point at which
purchaser can need projections. Such deter
mination to take every obstacle out of the way
clothing is worthy ofsincere applause
II need not any longer be a terror to suit your
self or your family with the best and cheapest
clothing the country affords, July l3-lm.
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This time it is a pic story The Lancaster
E:cpress says w. Shoemaker, Of Fulton
township, has pig of the female persua-
sion that has brought into the world, dur
ing he brief existence of eight years, three
hundred pigs, every one Of which reached
maturity.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-07-13

It is stated that the burning of brush af-
ter night is in violation Of statute Of this
State, and a penalty of fifty dollars is at
tached in case the law is disobeyed. This
item of information many be Of interest to
some Of our rural readers. We presume
the idea Is that there is danger Of the flames
spreading to fences or buildings, and also
Of burning the woods in the vicinity.
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MARRIED..

At East Stroudsburg, July 4th, 1876, by A.
w. Loder, Esqr, Mr. Joseph Il. Miller, and
Miss Elizabeth Post, both of Smithfeld tsp,
this county.
On the Sth inst, at Cherry Valley NJ. f.
parsonage, by Rev. q. l.. Schaier, Mr. VIM.
Baylor, of Oxford Furnace, n. j., and Miss
Levina Snyder, of fStroudsburg, Pa.
At the NJ. E. Parsonage, Analomnk, on
Monday, July 10Th, 1876 by Rev. T. l.. Mar
tin, Mr.. John Bunet, of Chester, Morris Co.,
\. j., and Miss Sarah 4. Shifier, near Strouds-
burg, Monroe county, Pa.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-07-13

There Is yet outstanding Of the first IS
sues OF fractional currency, prior to 1869,
the sum Of SI0,479,076. Of this large
sum 1t Is estimated that ten millions Will
never be presented for reduction, having
1oen lost or destroyed in the hands Of the
holders. ! Hardly any oft mas appeared to
De exchanged for silver coin. A large per
c,entaSe Of that issued since 1869 has prob
&Diy gone the same way The total amount
u fractional currency put out since 1861
Is about $1,000, 900, but not more than
one-tenth Of It has been in circulation at
any one time.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-07-13

The surplus revenue Of the United
States for the year ending July 1st was
$2J,249,381. The expenditures were $16,-
100000 below those Of 1873. This is out
SIDE OF the reductions in the interest ac-
count, which are very considerable. With
such balance on the right side after pay
LnS running expenses it is nonsense and
loly to allege that the nation is trembling
on the yerage Of bankruptcy.
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A uditOr's Notice.

The undersigned appointed Auditor by the
Court of Common Pleas of Monroe county, to
make distribution of the fund in Court, arising
from the Sherif's sale of the personal property
of Samuel Sitter will attend TO the duties Of
his appointment at his office, in the Borough of
Stroudsburg, on Friday, July p, 1878, at 2
o'clock p. m, when and where all persons in
terested in said distribution, may attend if they
think proper or be forever debarred from COM
ing in for any share thereof
a. A. DINSMORE, Auditor.
June -, 1S7G.-4t
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WANTED,

For two years 81 600 on first Mortgage
on Real Estate, worth over 2, ,500.-A liberal
bonas will be given for the same. Apply
at this Office June Is, 76-3t
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-07-13

Pennsylvania produced 36,347, ,G15 of
the so ,507, ,175 tons Of coal mined in the
United States last years.
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DECKER
OF THE
WONDERFUL CHEAP
AUCTION STORE
Is WIDE A WAKE on tie spot, and his
Store in Stro@dsJuy is ao,o groaniny
and granting under the load Of
Cheap Goods just arrjoed.
JUST LOOK HEREi

Q spools of our best Cotton for cents.
. rows of Pins for l cent
2 papers best Needles, cents.
2 large cakes Toilet Soap, cents.
Good Lead Pencils, l cent.
Full set of Jet Jcwelry, 20 cents
Gents and Youths lined Collars, per box,
and 10 cents.
Calico, and ); Very fine white stripe Peka,
u cents.
Beautiful Shades of Grass Cloth, fine, only 10
cents yard.
Plain Dress Goods, 10. Black Alpaca, % cts
Summer and Fall Shawls, So and 65 cents.
Large White Counter-paneS 81 and 81 Is.
Cassimeres & Summer Wear, nearly half price.
Fine Dress Linen IS, % and % cents.
Muslin Edgings 4, 6, s and IL cents
Ribbons, Flowers and Feathers, half price.
Children's Gloves cents.
Ladies' Gloves and 10 cents.
Gents Gloves 10 and 15 cents
Children's, Ladies' and Gents Hosiery nearly
half price.
Hemmed Handkerchiefs cents.
Oil Table-cloths and Covers never so cheap.
Corsets, elegant only 40 cents.
Linen Table-cloths and Towels, very cheap.
Full pound Cotton Bats II cts.
Beautiful Carpets - cts. and 81 per yard
Mems Pants, lined, 81. Mems Goats 81 and
So. Mems Vests 81.
Mems and Boys whole suits, good Cassimer,
So to So.
Mems and Youths soft Hats zoe. to 81 %.
Mems and Boys Straw Hats 10 and % cts.
Misses & Ladies fashionably trimmed Spring
and Summer Hats, SOC. TO 81 80.
Ladies Fine Lace and Button Lasting Caters
81 % to $l75.
Mems Fine Calf Boots So So Mems fine I'm
dershirts 80 to 80 cents.
Ladies' fine Undershirts 40 cts. Mems fine
Muslin Shirts 81.
Now, if you want TO see RUSH, jus; come
to DECKER'S wonderful cheap Auction Store
4 doors below Post Office.
April ", 10y.
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DIVIDEND NOTICE.

\ semi-annual dividend of per cent will be paid bv
the Stroudsburg Passenger Railway Company at the
Office of the Monroe County Banking and Savings Co
Parties holding certificates Of stock which have not
been transferred on the books of the Company will
please present them and have certificates issued
in thcir favor.
July l3-3t. TIfOS. \. BELL. Sec'y
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-07-13
NOTICE.
NOTICE.

Notice i hereby given that application win be
made under the Act Of Assembly of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, entitled An Act provide for the
incorporation of certain COrPoratOns,' approved
April -, ls1i for the charter of an intended
corporation To he called The StroudSburg Water COM
p3ny, for the purpose Of supplying the said Borough
q" NtroudSburg aud vicinity with The business
OF said company 10 be transacted in said Borough Of
SroUdsburE county OF Monroe, state Of Pennsylvania
July I3, 1876.
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DIED.

At Delaware Water Gap on the eth inst,
Mr.. John Davey, aged 10 years months and
ID days,
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Estate of EMANUEL II HELLER late of Stroud town
ship, deceased.
Letters of Administration upon the above named
Estate having been granted TO the undersigned all per-
persons indebted TO said Estate requested to
make immediate payment, and those having claims
against the same will present their accounts duly
authenticated for settlement to-
CHARLES b. STAPLES Admir-
July li-Gt. Stroudsburg. Pa.
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EXECUTORS NOTICE.

Estate of Stephen II. Peters, decd of Barrett tsp.
Letters testamentary upon the above Estate having
been granted to the undersigned all persons indebted
TO said Estate are requested TO make payment, and
those having claims to present the same without delay
10 LENINA PETERS, Executrix
or SAMUEL P0STENS, Executor.
July 15-6t*. Mountain H.me Pa
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GREAT INDIAN BATTLE
THE GROUND PILED WITH BODIES

sang UL4RrF FIGHTING IN THE WEST
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-07-13
FOUGHT LIKE TIGERS

died at the head of their column. The
exact loss Is not known, as both adjutants
and the sergeant major were killed.
The Indian camp was from three to four
mile long, and WAS twenty miles up the
Little Horn from It's mouth.
The Indians actually pulled the men of
their horses in some instances. This Is
givcn as Taylor told it. The above is con-
tirmed by other letters, which say that Gus
ter met fearful disaster
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-07-13

A UDITOR'S SETTLEMENT WITH
IA \. .. GREENWALD, Treasurer of
the Stroudsburg School Board, for the year
ending June 9TH, 1875.
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field School District.
STATEMENT OF
Receipts and Expenses

Of the District for the year ending June 5th, 1876
For school purposes 10 mills and for building mills
to the dollar.
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WANTED.

To rent by workingman, small house near vii
lage between Stroudsburg and Bushkill address, with
particulars Il. SWIFrWOOD
July l3-itl PhiladeIphia Pa
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-12
Evils Of Silver Change.

When o man walks much the in
side of his legs will be chafed raw.
When less than a dollar is to 60 by
mail it will have to be converted first
into postage stamps. When you
run for a street car money will fly
out of your pockets at every jump.
When you tell your wife that you have
no money she will say you lie, for
she heard it jingle. 1t will be dias-
cult to pay a man a quarter by mis-
take for a half. When you are in n
hurry, the storekeeper will have to
weigh the coin in his hand and sound
it twenty-five times on the counter
before he al determine whether it
is good. The baby will swallow q
dime a day. A boy with a quarter
will lose it in a crack in two minutes
from which no amount of coaxing
with forks and chips can o it.
Sleepy men will put buttons and loz-
enges into contribution boxes as of
yore.[S st. Louis Republican.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-12
The Father Of Great Farms.

Oliver Dalrymple, the father of
extensive farmers in Minnesota,
seems i'll at rest and has gone up
near Fargo and opened up on the
grand scale a farm of $1,000 acres,
with 1000 acres already under the
pillow. There would not be room
enough on a farm down east for this
man to sneeze, as he ordinarily takes
a five thousand acre field in which to
do it. He was once poor lawyer,
practicing that calling about this
state for living, but he is not of
that kind any more. He made him
self rich getting up claims for the
settlers, for the depredations commit
ted by the red inen, at the Indian
outbreak in this state in 1862. his
per cent, being from on%e-fourth to
one-halfof the whole amount obtain
ed, or about forty thousand dollars
in all for himself. He "broke'' alit-
tie buying wheat some time since.
but that is all over now, while he is
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-12

When a newspaper enters into the
discussion of a subject and is cor
nered by a cotemporary, it is mean
and contemplate and shows the fall
lacy Of its assertions, by ignoring
the subject matter and making a
wanton and lying attack upon the
private habits of its antagonist. The
acts of q public official, as such, are
subject to the criticism of the press,
but when a newspaper stoops so low
as to make the private habits of q
c~ontrere atarget for its venom, wheth-
er such acts be true or not, it renders
itself beneath the contempt of decent
and intelligent readers.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-12


Wagons, kiyuscs and pack saddles
are being got in shape for the Black
Hills and Big Horn county. We
notice large numbers of mountaineers
in town purchasing supplies. There
is no doubt nov of a thorough pros
pecting of the mines on Big Horn
and Tongue rivers and Goose creek.
The labors of the prospectors this
season will PROFESSIONALLY result in
the discovery and development Of
the richest mines in the West, or
prove the stories of old miners in
regard to the great wealth of the
mines of Eastern Montana a fable.
(Bozeman NJ. T. Avant Courier.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-12

Mr.. WILDER F. Storey of the Chi
cago Times, was foreman of the Grand
Jury when his paper published the
life and adventures of Oliver p.
Morton under the attractive caption
of "Indiana's Favorite Stud Horse"
He drew up a bill and was about to
have the Times indicted for obsceni-
ty. The managing editor got wind
of it and sent word to the High
muck-a-muck that the paragraph
(seven columns) slipped in while he
was out taking lunch. Mr.. S. tore
up the true bill, but shook his fore
finger at the managing editor in a
warning..sort of a Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-12

a poorer but wiser man, seeking
sweet repose within the precincts of
his farm. 1t is almost safe to say
this farmer will not speculate any
more in wheat. Those farmers who
will do SO should not have their
ashes respected by posterity-fAnoka
MINI. Republican.
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Rate. of Advertising.

A-Our Authorized Advertising Agents Tor the
LEApER are. in New York. s. NJ. Pettengill 4 Co.,
q, Park Row. Geo p. Howell 4 Co. 40 Park Row.
NJ. Louis, Rowel 4 Chesman, Cor. Third and
Chestnut Streets, St. Louis Advertising and
Publ shing Agency; Chicago. II. II. Chandler.
ial South Clark street; Philadelphia, N. W.
Aver 4 Son. 7ss sanson Street; and coe. Weth-
srill 4 Co.. Bulletin building.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-12
FRIDAY. MAY IL. 1876.

Charles Francis Adams has been
interviewed on the subject of the
Presidency. He says he does not
want the Office. The honor is not
worth the trouble and yexation.
He expresses no preference for any
of the prominent competitors for the
nomination.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-12
The Anti-Pigtail Movement in
China.

A VERY uneasy feeling has been ex-
cited in Chinese fashionable circles by
the doings of the secret society found
ed, or rather revived, for the purpose
of cutting off the pigtails, which every
Chinaman who respects himself makes
a point of displaying. The earliest
travellers in the Flowery Empire have
told us of the care that the Chinese be-
stow upon their hair which is plated
with great adroitness and perfumed
profusely, the ends being tied with a
knot of blue or black ribbon.
The golden youth of China, like the
ladies in countries nearer home, resort
even to artificial means to lengthen
these pigtails, which are the nearer to
perfection in proportion as they come
nearer to the ground. 1t seems that
the secret society whose mission it is
to remove these baubles has not been
formed with a view to gain, nor is it
acting this way as a practical joke.
The members of the society believe
that the habit of wearing pigtails tends
to etfeminacy, and they hope, in snip
ping them off, to rouse the wearers to a
sense of the duties which they owe to
their country.
The Chinese believed at first, when
their pig-tails disappeared as if by en-
chantment, that they were the victims
of some evil genii. The Chinese eau
thorities," more matter-of-fact, at
once arrived at the conclusion that the
ancient sect of "pig-tail cutters" had
been reconstructed. They have, it is
said, accordingly decreed that any per-
son found with scissors in his hand in
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-12
Religion in the Home.

IT is to be feared that there are
many whose ready and Jealous coop
Grafton in the more public means for
the promotion of Christianity are yet
sadly deficient in efforts to bring the
influences of Christianity within their
own homes. A credit to Christian
fidelity, obtained by benevolence, by
devotion to the church, by honorable
connection with our service in the
cause of Christian education, seems to
be so satisfying as to leave the con-
science at rest WIN reference to the re-
ligious demands of the household.
Every watchful pastor becomes IA
miliar with instances of this painful
defect, and is sometimes tempted to
believe that the more public duties of
the Christian are made the cloak of
private character, or at least that they
are much less SeDere tests of Christian
fidelity than the virtues which should
find exercise in the Christian homes.
The spontaneity of home-its sud
den unrestrained outbursts of feeling
how un-Christian they frequently
are. How that freedom, which ought
to be the open door to mreserved con-
idence, and the channel of the purest
joys, is often the opportunity for fierce
domestic torment. Impotence, fret
fulness, scolding, accusation, criticism,
unkind rebuke, and even jealousy, en-
ter, in greater or less degree, to mar
the peace which Christianity would
give. Sometimes these evil traits de-
velop themselves and are allowed to
grow, until what is called home be-
comes most fearful tax upon human
endurance. All this exists in homes
called Christian. We cannot conceive
1t possible that it should be the case,
except as the absence of the Christian
graces from the daily life of the house
hold has been thought a small offense.
This is certainly most fatal mistake.
Home is the place of the highest joys;
religion should sanctify them. Home
is the sphere of the deepest sorrows;
the highest consolation of religion
should assuage its griefs. Home is the
place of the greatest intimacy of heart
with heart; religion should sweeten it
with the JOY of confidence. Home dis
covers all faults; religion should bless
it with an abundance of charity.
Home is the place for impressions, for
instruction and culture; there should
religion open her treasure of wisdom,
and pronounce her heavenly benedic-
tion. Reader, seek such a home!-
Baptist Weekly. u
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-10-12
I" Orders" for Women.

FRENCH women are so far less for
tunate than their sisters in most other
Continental countries that there is no
special "order" or decorations" for
women in France, and it is very rare
thing for lady to be awarded the red
ribbon of the Legion of Honor. At
the present time there are not more
than four or five ladies who possess
this distinction, and one of them is an
English woman, Lady Pigot, who
tended the French wounded during the
late war. The ladies who care for
these outward and visible signs of So
cial distinction must regret that they
did not live 200 years ago. when, if
they had been lucky enough to win the
good graces of the Duchesse de Maine,
they would have been able to sport the
order of the " Honey Fly" The wit
ty Duchesse, granddaughter of the
great Condo, and the wife of the Due
de Maine, the son of Louis XIV. and
Madame de Montespan, held literary
court of her own at Sceaux, and exer-
cised, with her courtiers, all her in
genuity in inventing, from time to
time, some new diversion. 1t oc-
CURED to her one day that she would
institute an order of chivalry for both
sexes, and call it the "Honey Fly"
(Mouche-a-mieD. The idea was taken
from Tasso's line, She is tiny, but she
can intlict severe wounds" which had
been applied to her on account of her
diminutive stature and great powers
of repartee. The distinctive mark of
the order was gold medal, with the
effigy of the foundress, and upon the
reverse the lines quoted above. The
members of the order had to take the
following oath: 81 swear by the bees
of Mount IIymettus obedience and
fidelity to the foundresS of the order
[ swear that all my life long | will
wear the order of the Honey Fly, and
oDtS lit SltlultS. IL dll ldlSe 10
my oath, may the honey become gall
in my mouth, the wax tallow, the
flowers nettles, and may wasps and
hornets sting me-" The costume of
the order was coat in cloth of gold,
spangled with silver bees for the
chevaliers; and the ladies wore robe
of green satin, embroidered with sill
yer bees, and diadem of flies in emer-
aids. The institution Of the order was
a great success, and the fetes in cele-
bration of it lasted many days at the
Chateau de SceauX, which was the
residence of the Due and Duchess de
Maine; but the order did not outlive
its foundress, whose latter years were
passed in serious study, and who had
long ceased to wear her "decora-
ton. "-LondOn Ne1cs.