The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-01-10
GENERAL NEWS.

Forty-five Popes have been exiled from
Rome.
The orthodox Jews in New York propose
to erect college.
A Buffalo revenue collector. sues for $780,
600. his share of coniscated goods
Clients are so scarce in ST. Louis, that the
lawyers kidnap them from each other.
A bear weighing over 400 pounds was
killed few days ago, in Washington town.
ship, Clarion County, Pa.
]. Robly Dungli lison, of the Philadelphia
Press, has been rendered the position of Pri-
vate Secretary to Governor Geary.
John Bright, the English philanthrop;st, is
accused of endcaYoring to Americanise Eng
land
The Girard estate, held, By the city Of
Philadelphia in trust, netted $500 900 last
year, and will soon support 1000 orphans.
The trial of the thirty-two Fenians, impris-
oned in Canada, commenced in Toronto on
Tuesday.
Stephens, the Fenian Head Center. filled
to offer the city o. Dublin, as ''Christmas
git" to the Irish Republic, rs he promised.
Chicago has two rolling mills in active op-
Grafton, which 90 $2,500,0 ,0O0 Of business per
annum.
Two.thirds of the thirty thousand women
in New Yor k, who are dependent on daily Ia
Dor for support, are now out OF employment.
Mrs. General Williams, formerly Mrs. S.
A. Douglas, is among the observed OF all
Observers in Washington society This win
ter.
Russia is again announced as making ex-
tensive war preparation-a proceeding that
Austria and Turkey are very much distressed
at, as it BODIES them no good.
The Fruit Growers of Pennsylvania, as
semble in convention at Harrisburg on the
10Th proximo. Is Monroe county to be rep
resented!
The. prisoners in the Maryland Penitenta-
ry had sumptuous dinner spread before them
on Christmas day. the contributions of their
relatives and friends outside.
The Scientific American estimates that
| twenty tons of postage stamps were used last
| year-or, by superficial measurement, forty
eight and half square miles Of paper.
A cargo of st. Louis flour, from New Or
leans, arrived at Portland. Me-, few days a.
90, and others are to follow-ths mode of
transportation being more speedy than by rail.
The "burnt district of Portland, Me-. is
being so rapdly rebuilt that over .s75 600
are required weekly to pay the wages of the
mechanics employed.
a call is issued for State Republican
Convention, 10 meet at Nashville, Tenn,
February p, 1867, to nominate candidate
for Governor, and express the views OF uncon-
ditional Union men.
T.. 81, No., VII
who is believed to be the richest man in A
merica, is about to retire from active business,
and devote himself to taking care of his prop
eriy.
Savannah, Ga, is becoming Northernized.
Very many New England men are settling
there, engaging in commerce, numbering,
&c, and, it is said, are we'll treated by the
natives.
Mr.. J. W. Harris, of Carroll county, Ohio
was choroformed, gagged, tied and robbed of
So, 100 in his house, few days since, by
gang of rufiians. ior whose capture reward
of 1900 is offered.
Capitalists, in st. Louis, have a plan for
building a suburban town some four miles
from that city. They propose TO build five
hundred dwellings, with street raj road, AMI
provide for gas and water supplies.
The first and only execution in Montgom-
cry County, took place on the 18th Of April.
I7SS, when John Brown was'hung for Bur
glary. They are to have another ma few
days.
A lady visited Petersburg, Va, last week
for the purpose of purchasing a wedding
trousseau, and while there also purchased
tombstone to be placed ovor the grave of her
late husband. The new love and the old.
The trial ofGeorge w. Gayle, the Alabam-
ian, who offered a reward for the assassina-
tion ofthe lamented Lincoln, was commenc-
III Montgomery at the late term of the Courts.
bst, for some cause was continued over TO
the next term.
Some of the oil companies on the Stevens,
McClunlock, Story and other noted farms in
OIldorado, are shutting down their wells and
discharglng their hands, having come to the
conclusion that the oil is worth more under
ground than above 1t, at present prices.
An overcoat thief al Reading, few even
ings since, captured, in the ball of the resi-
dence. of Samuel Nyce, valuable overcoat,
and still more valuable pocket book con-
tanning SSJS7, ,oiSciy left in the coat pocket
Hall thieves are recommended to migrate to
Reading.
United States Detective Officer found,
a week or two ago, in Warren Co, n j., a
tin box, containing counterfeit United States
notes to the amount of So eco, Persons in
Easton are suspected of being concerned in
some way with the ownership of this money,
and they are being closely watched.
An editor undertook TO count the drunken
men i'll Huntsville, Mo-, few days ago
Having reached the number of thirty-one who
were so drunk they didn't know high-noon
from midnight, he was brought up bv drum
ken fellow who reeled and staggered SO he
couldn't count him. There must have been
u good deal of drunk in Huntsville on that
day.
Heavy Turkeys.