The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1866-11-22
GENERAL NEWS.
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One hundred and twenty persons have
been converted in the Methodist Episco
pal Church at Alexandria, Va.
The Vermont Legislature is discussing
a bill to make habitual drunkenness a
cause for divorce.
The Mississippi University has opened
session with one hundred aud forty stud
ents
The Legislature of Mississippi propose
to endow an orphan asylum through lot
terry.
Boston is building monument to Ned
Kendall, "the bugler that bug led with his
bug!e"
1t is very easy to get up a meteoric dis
play on dark night by running your
nose violently against lamp post.
Colorado has taken the start of all the
Territories in establishing good common
school system.
The Lynchburg Virginian; proposes
that an extensive tobacco fair be held in
that city next spring.
A Mrs Ford, Of Kentucky has named
her triplets George ID. Prentice, Robert
Il. Lee and Jefferson Davis.
A girl at Mineral Point, Wis, was so
badly injured last week, by swallowing
hot coffee, that she died.
John Bull has ordered Is inch Rod
man gun, with improved carriage, shot
and powder, from the United States.
The crop of apples in the southern and
southeastern sections Of New Hampshire
this year is good.
y white deer was shot in Tobyhanna
township, Monroe county, by Josiah
Hickman. 1t was rare and beautiful
animal.
The New Orleans Times says that So
900 hogsheads in the general estimate
Of the sugar crop, which is eight of
the old crop.
About300 Quaker emigrants from, Gull
ford county, n. c., were to arrive in Nor
felix Wednesday evening en- route to In
diana.
A single firm in London consumes the
whites OF two thousand eggs daily, or six
hundred thousand annually, in the man
ufacture Of albuminized paper for photo
graphic printing.
DR.. Dickenson, of Delaware county.
Pa, recently discovered near that place
an almost inexhaustable bed of verdi an
tique, or magnetism marble.
| At Reading, Penn, q policeman was
! fined four dollars and costs for driving a
horse faster than trot, through street
Of the city, while in pursuit of u thief.
4 flag staff has been erected on the lot
where the Union soldiers were buried at
indianapolis, and the Stars and Stripes
are to be kept floating from its halyards
from sunrise to sunset.
The number of Italian soldiers in the
Austrian army, who are, By the treaty OF
peace between Austria and Italy, to be
giving up by the former to the italian
Government, is forty thousand.
A man in England broke a window
proiessed to be very drunk, " had nc
change but 95 note" The tradesman
ed to be counterfeit. Cute! but an old
trick.
A census Of the State Of Mississippi
taken this year, indicates that the loss OF
whites to that State during the last six
years was 5000, and Of blacks $1,000
leaving in that State at present $4,000
white, and 3S0,000 blacks.
1t is n singular fact that the man who
has been most liberal to the poor of Lon
don, is not an Englishmau, but an Amer
lean; and the man who proposes to spend
five million of dollars for the poor o!
New York, is not an American, but q
Scotchman.
The following order, rerJatim ct liter
atm, is said to have been received by an
undertaken from an afflicted widower:-
&" Sur:-My wife is ded and wants to be
buried tomorro. At Wunner klok. L
knose wair to dig the hoal--bi the side
of my too uthcr wiyes-Let it be deep"
The Lewiston (Maine) Journal says
Butter retails in our market from As to
IS and 80 cents. At such rates few can
afford TO eat much butter. We remember
that during the war an excited orator on
the stump said that the women of the
country could churn out the public debt
in few years. Judging from the price
of butter they have commenced upon the
business already.
The Greensburg Herald, referring to
the fact that the Copperheads voted nc
gro IN East ilompfeld township, Lancas
ter county, aud one in Harrisburg, says
that Sin the borough of Greensburg, on
the day of the last election, Democrat
marched q man of African decent up ia
the polls, and bad him vote the whole
Democratic ticket, though he Was not a
resident of the district even Yet John
Dick, Democrat, did that thing, and a
Democratic election board took the vote. "
Mr.. Schoelburtz, Of Erie, Pa, went fish.
ing to the lighthou dock on Friday last.
While examining his watch, fine gold