The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1866-10-25
GENERAL NEWS.
| weather,
We are enjoying delightful weather.
At the north pole, every direction is soutl
Oitawa Illinois has yotnd SIQ0 Qla for
white.

There are one thousand telegraph omces
in Europe.
Upwards of two thousand different kinds
of nails are manufactured.
The manufacture of pottery in England
employs 10000.
Vessels across the Atlantic just now have
long and stormy passages.
1t is found that the dry substance of eggs
contains forty per cent. of pure fat.
Six missionaries have opened 225 "nurse-
ries of piety'' in Missouri.
John p. Dillon. M. p, who was concern
ed in the Irish outbreak of l84S, is dead.
The taxable banking capital of Cincinna-
ii is S2,700, eco, held by twenty-five firms.
General Mott, Of New jersey, has declin-
ed the offer of colonelcy in the regular ar
my.
Alexander II. Stephens is in unusually
good health, and intends devoting himself to
the law.
One million of dollars have already been
subscribed for the Centenary of American
Methodism.
A knife and fork which can be used by
one handed man has been patented by 4 Buff
falonian.
S. F. Cary, of Ohio, federal office hold
CIR, is barring his neck 10 the axe by writing
radical letters.
A man in Alexandria, Va, hid four thou
sand dollars when drunk, and couldn't find
it when sober.
| The method of blowing fires by means Of
the steam-jet in the chimney or fire, was
known to the ancients.
There are more hogs than humans in the
United States. England has Lut one pig for
every nine persons.
A young German. of ST. Louis, recently
blew his brains out to get rid OF headache.
sovereign remedy that.
Two young ladies'. expelled from the Yves
leyan Academy. at Wilbraham, Mass, took
!audaDum and nearly died.
a negro arrested in Sayannlb, is accused
of numbering white man and then putting
up The dead body as target.
John Pope is going to establish branch
Of Agricultural Newton's Department in the
Rocky Mountains.
A lady's blighted affections were healed
in New York Court by judgment of
5000 against the "brute" she sued.
A publishing house in Chicago has issued
100000 almanacs for the coming year, at
cost of forty thousand dollars.
| a horse thief, arrested at Eddyville. Iowa,
recently took strychnine while il: the officers
hands sand died Immediately.
A little girl, only twelve years of age,
daughter Off Virginia iend named Rutledge
has been made the victim of her fathers lust.
Santa Anna is a confirmed and reckless
gambler. He will stake thousands upon the
! fighting qualities of an unknown rooster
| The Tennessee Democratic Convention
ton will meet at Nashville on the 9th. Ii
had been postponed on account of the chol-
era.
| a London negro writes, with heaviness of
heart, that England-the England that is
heard to speak and seen to acts pro-sla-
very
The Richmond Wing advises the country
| gentlemen of Virginia to forsake politics
| for questions more nearly affecting their
| livelihood.
The divisibility of copper is SO great that
single grain of it dissolved in alkali will
| give sensible color to 100000 times its
weight in water.
The heat which would raise IL lbs of
water through any number of degrees of
temperature would heat 8 lbs. of iron to the
same extent.
The manufacture Of the wire for the At
Iantic cable kept nearly $50 hands employed
for eleven months. Over 10000 miles were
supplied
Sc iland. with one-half of the population
ofIreland, consumes annually 1894 900 gal
Ions of whiskey, while Ireland drinks only
100000 gallons.
| A co,orel man has been arrested in Wash
ington for cutting down trees in the grounds
south of the White House. He said he
wanted them for frewood
The tanners in Bewdley, England, have
been fined for turning a white liquid into
the river Severn, whereby one hundred thou
sand OF the fish were destroyed.
II is thought that Judge Paschal, an ex-
| treme radical, will be elected to Congress
from the Fourth District OF Texas, owing to
divisions in his adversary's ranks.
A ball of iron weighing one thousand
pounds at the level of the sea, would be per-
ceived 10 have lost two pounds Of its weight
If taken 10 the top of mountain four miles
high
The greatest elevation yet attained by
man, without leaving the surface in balloon,
is nineteen thousand feet. NJ. Boussingault
and Col. Hall ascended Chlmborazo to that
height.
John Morrisy says, in published card,
that although he has just taken out his natu-
ralization papers in obedience to law, he has
voted for fourteen years-hasing come 10
this country with his father thirty three
years ago, when two years OF age.
A Mormon Bishop recently deceased
leaves eleven wives and forty seven child
ern to mourn his loss.
A single corn6eld in North Carolina
produces this season ten thousand bush
els.
The assessed value of Chicago this year
is S9l ,000, 900 since last year.