The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-07-27
Interal Revenue receipts since july Al.
ready amount to $l5,301 900.

lnteral Revenue receipts since July I al.
ready amount to $l5,301, 900.
Barnum is out in card promisins Ia
rebuild the Museum Immediately.
Six millions will be.expended next week
in paying off the 10000 troops in and about
Washington.
0r According TO the ruling of the Com.
missioner of Internal Revenue, the carding
of wool is not regarded as manufacture.
The Erie Railway Company sold s3O..
900 worth of tickets at Elmira depot, last
month.
The Presidents family, including his
two secretaries, when all assembled, will
number fifteen persons.
Five hundred barrels Of yellow snuff
are stored at Greensboro, N. c., for
Southern women to chew.
Twenty-Five thousand men are busiiy
engaged in pushing forward the Pacific
Railroad on the California side.
Hay is offered at from FIVE to scye6
dollars per ton in the Erie Market. So
says the Dispatch
o. Joseph A. Sears, Jay Cookies agent a,
Port Royal, S, c., announces that he has nj.
ready sold seyen-ihirties to residents of South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida
The appointment of Col. p. C. Ellma-
ker, of Philadel lphia, as U. S. Marshal
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
in place of Hon. William Milward, was
officially announced on Saturday.
DR.. N. +. Marsh, of Honesdale, h.
been appointed Medical Director of tho
Department OF Georgia, with the rank Of
Lieutenant Colonel His headquarters
are at Augusta, Ga.
Sir Isaac Newton's nephew was a cler.
gyman. When he had performed the mar.
riage ceremony for couple he always re-
fused the fee, saying, "Go your ways. poor
wretches, have done you mischief enough
already"
About $4,000 worth of mutilotcd and
worn out fractional currency is replaced by
new Issues, at Washington, daily. The
of S2l ,00O,00U. No more of the three cent
denomination will be issued.
0J- The New Hampshire authorities ara
getting ready to receive at their State Prison
fifty convicts from the national government.
The convlcts are to be set to work like other
prisoners, and the government is to pay q
dollar week for the board of EACH
0T The New Hampshire Court has de-.
cided that an express comprny delivering q
parcel marked with the cabalstic '.C. O. d."
collect on delivery may allow person
to whom it is consigned reasonable time 10
open the package and determine whether he
will receive it or not.
o. Preliminary measures are in pros.
pect for the trial of Capt. Wirtz, formerly
IN charge of the Andersonville Military Pr-
on. A large number of witnesses have al.
readey been summoned, and letters are con-
stantly received from those who possess
knowledge Of the cruelties practiced on Un.
ion prisoners by this Rebel commander.
G@T Returns of the elections in Virgipi.
represent that in other portions of the State.
as well as Richmond the regnlas Seces-
sion candidates have been generally success
tul. Encouraged by these results, it is said
that the guerrilla chief, Mosby, designs BE-.
ing candidate for Congress. -:
o. The cholera is making sad havoc in.
Turkey and Arabia. No less than AZ 900
of the pilgrims at Mecca have been swept
OF, and the streets are filled with corpses.'
Five thousand of the Persian pilgrims have
died, among them a sheik reported to be .
saint.