The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-08-29
GENERAL NEWS.

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1000.
The Helena Herald of the 31st ult.,
says that band of Blackfeet Indians re-
Gently massacred thirty miners at Ner-
million.
1t appears from the records of the
| Smithsonian Institute, that the entire fall
of rain during the late storms, was nearly
six inches.
The Central Pacific Rrailroad Company
have rooted ten miles of their road, and
intend to shelter all the spots most exposed
to the severe weather Of winter.
A grape grower in the Miami Valley
says he stopped the rot in his grapes by
stripping the leaves away from the bunch
es, SO they could get sunshine and air
"Will you lend father your newspaper
sir he only wants to read it." "Yes my
boy, and ask him to lend me his dinner,
only want to eat it.
The receipts from customs from the
1st to the 10th inst, at the principal
Atlantic ports, amounted to Sl4 ,6T0,4l3.
To this amount Philadelphia contributed
S229,3l6.
At meeting of the soldiers and sail
ors of Washington, ID. c., last night, a
series of resolutions were passed conde M
ming the President for suspending Secre
tary Stanton.
The New York EUening Gazette tells
of man who cured himself of dyspepsia
by what he calls the " hog system ia
king good nap after every meal. The
system is certainly worthy of trial
During fire at Highland Falls, N. Y,
on Saturday morning, an old man named
Joseph McClanan, who resided in the
vicinity of the condagration, died from
fright TIE pecuniary loss from the fire
amounts to $4,000.
A Western editor thinks if the pro
per way of spelling tho is though and
bo, beaux, the proper way of spelling
potatoes must be 'poughteighteaux.'- =
The new way of spelling softly is psought-
leigh.
The Washington Star asserts that Ma
! jor General Howard will soon be relieved
from duty, and an official of the regular
army, not above the rank of Colonel, ap-
pointed in his stead as Chief of the
Freedmen's Burean.
Mexican correspondence of the New
Orleans Picayune says that no less than
FIVE hundred Imperial officers, prisoners
of war, French, Austrian, Belgian and
Mexican, have been shot since the lst of
March and the work goes on yet.
William Richardson, of Paulding coun-
ty, Ohio, is one hundred and four years
old. "He is the survivor of FIVE wives,
and is now living with the sixth. He is
the father of twenty five children by two
Of his wives tweutyone are living.
The following is a list of the prices
paid by Mr. Robert Bonner for his cele-
brated ses:-Dexter, $4,000; Po-
cahontas S35 900; Auburn Horse Sl3,-
600; Peerless $4,000; Flatbush Maid, s.
600; Lantern, 5000; Lady Palmer, S.
000; total, SllS,OOO-
A number of prominent New York
Democrats had an interview with the
President on Saturday and urged him tc
request the resignation of Secretary Nc
Culloch. Mr. johnson desires it to be
generally understood that his Cabient is
now harmonious, and that there will be
no more changes, for the present at least
The following are the names and sup
posed numbers of the hostile tribes now
united in the war upon the whites
Apaches, 900 ;Arapahoes, 8 900; Black
feet, 5000; Crows, 5000; Comanches
10000 Kiawas, 4 900 ;Cheyennes, 2, 500
Gros Ventres, 500; Miniatures, $500
Navajoes, 1900; Sioux, $4,000. Total
10000.
There is now living in Athens town
| ship (says the Meadville Repabtican,
Crawford county, Pa, venerable lady il
; the person of Mrs. Rebecca Porter Mrs
Porter was born in the Province of Nov;
t Scotia, from whence she removed SOM
, twenty.six years ago, with her son, to thi
, county, and she is now in her ninety
ninth year. Last week the old lad,
walked one aud half miles, obtained 1
pair of hand cards, and from the fleece
carded, spun and twisted eight 'run' o
: wooden yarn within space of time which
, many a younger damsel might be prouC
of.
Another Democratic fraud has beer
discovered in Democratic Berks. Tn,
Reading Dispatch says: :" 1t has beer
our painful duty within the past few
months to record several little cases (in
private, confidential way) of Democrati
frauds. But We now have music t
which the whole party of Berks ma,
, dance free gratis. Fraud = like murde
will out, and all the powers that be
can't stop it! The last one to fall ande
: our.notice seems to be an extensive frau
p3petrated upon the Internal Revenu
t Department of the government by lat
, Recorder of this county. One of Colone
Alexander's officials took possession of
portion of the records of that Office yes
terday. and we learn is engaged in "post