The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-05-23
GENERAL NEWS.
Vermont has 11.445 MethOdists.

with S00,UUU worth OF OIL STOCK ceTtlcateS.
There are nearly thirty Catholic Sun
day Schools in New York city.
England last year realised 81 ,096, sos
from tax on dogs.
Int@nal Rerenue receipts yesterday
s295,75l.
Customs receipts, from May l to May
IL, s5,1I7,772.
Last weeks internal revenue receipts
were sl,S34,000
Advices from Aroostook, Me-, say there
is still two feet of snow in the county, on
the 9th inst.
During the first four months of 1867
the losses by fire in the United States
have been S14,40S,0 900.
Reports from the Allegheny mountains
west of Staunton, represent the snow IL
feet deep.
s33,750,00 worth of goods were man
ufactured at Lewiston, Me, from Sept /,
1866, to April 1, 1867,
Stephen Smith, lumber merchant, is
the richest negro in Philadelphia. He
owns 75 houses and is worth 00,000.
Mr. Buchanan, whose fortune is reck-
oned at 100000, is the richest of our
surviving ex- Presidents.
Mr.. Pardee, of Illinois, has found that
lime Stacked in salt brine, sown broad
cast, has kept insects from strawberries.
A man at Pawlet, VT, has caught with
one trap, set on one spot, 60 foxes, 80
skunks, 5 coops and 10 crows.
In Taunton Great River a sturgeon,
nearly eight feet long, and weighing 306
pounds, was caught last week.
In the heart of white oak log, at Sal
isbury, y. H., was fonnd, the other day,
a full grown owl wOll preserved aud deep
ly imbedded in the wood.
A citizen of Crawford County, Pa, who
made safe of an old stove, had over $500
in greenbacks burned up the other day
by neglecting to remove them before max
ing FIRE.
Countcrfeit FIVE cent coins are in active
circulation. The die or matrix by which
they are made is nearly perfect, but the
metal i, very base, IN some instance be-
ing not much better than Lead
Mr.. James Rourke lost his life by ex-
plosion of a shell at Fort Sumter on Tues
day. He had been employed to remove
the old iron from the fort, and while
handling 100 pound shell it exploded.
A Nashville brewer has frog in his
establishment which weighs twelve
pounds. The beer is pronounced good or
bad according to the tastes of hi. custo-
mers.
The distance from New York to Sacra
mento by the railroad route is 8 l29 miles,
of which 1887 have been completed and
are now in successful operation, leaving,
but 1852 miles yet to be built.
At one of the Portland quarries on
Tuesday, the largest blast ever made in
the quarries threw out ii ,423 tons stone
as much as gang Of thirty men could
get out in eight months. Three kegs of
powder were used.
New Hampshire has three million dol
lars invested in horses, four and half
million in cattle, two and half million
in milch cows, two million in sheep, and
six hundred and seventy four thousand in
swine.
In Vassalboro, Me-, on Monday, man
was killed in most singular manner !;
while Witnessing game of base ball, hav-
lug an open knife in his hand, he sprang
to return a ball, when one of the players
ran against him driving the knife into his
heart
The town of Cambridge, VT, contain
ing population of only eighteen hund-
red, sent to market during year 1866,
54O, 900 pounds Of butter, valued at over
$500, 900. More than sixty tons Of ma
pie sugar were made in the same town in
April of 1867.
The Meadville Republican says a pike
weighing IA l-2 lbs, was caught in the
Harstown Reservoir last Friday. 1t moas.
ured 4 feet 3 inches in length, aud when
opened, two catfish, each about 10 inches
long were found, showing what his pike
ship had for dinner.
The death Of the old horse Henry Clay,
who in his time has been ono of the great
celebrities, and who was believed to be
the oldest living stallion, occurred in
Seneca county, New York, April ed
The age of this horse is ant 3uuced at 43
years and Z months-certainly a surpris.
ing age for horse to attain.
A countryman sold stove in Wor.
cester, Mass, and on returning home
learned that his daughter had placed in
the stove oven box containing $500, and
all his deeds and valuable papers. He
returned to the city in hot haste, and, sf-
ter considerable delay and anxiety, re-
covered his property.
The constitutionality of the bill passed
by the Legislature creating a judicial dis
trict, consisting of the counties OF Schuyl-
kill, Lebanon and Dauphin, is to be test
ed in the Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania.