The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-01-17
GENERAL NEWS.

A Pew in a Boston c hurch sold, recently,
for Ss5.40O.
Ii costs thirty millions year to fight the
Indians.
Gen. Mcclellan and family will soon re-
turn from Europe.
Philadelphia used lO,6l4,465 gallons of
water last year.
Pork is dull at six cents pound in West
Virginia.
New York spent thirty thousand dollars at
the theatres during holiday week
Mayor Hoffman says, the funded debt of
New York is ,S30,642,076.
All the lunatic asylums in and around Lon
don, England, are now full.
An exchange says, Vice President Ham
lin is looking after the Maine change. {.
A man iu Chicago recently cut his throat
because he lost $4,000 in oil speculations.
A negress in Austin, Texas, has sued a
white man for a breech of promise.
Twenty. one iron bridges have been built
in Cincinnati for the Pacific Railroad.
The Supreme Court OF New Jersey decides
that liquor bill is not legal debt.
The aggregate cost of the buildings erect
en- in Chicago, last year, was S9,OO0,OOO.
The largest diamond in America, valued
at $40, 900, is on exhibition at New Orleans.
The Philadelphi Mint is producing about
100000 of the new five cent pieces month.
The French government expects to have
100000 needle guns. by the middle OF May.
Belfast, Me, boasts OF pig so fat that the
tail has disappeared in the accumulated flesh.
Amarketman, in Harrisburg, has manufac-
tured sausage fifty feet, nine inches long.
Fred. Douglass, colored. has nearly com
pleled arrangements for the issue of new
weekly journal.
A gold nugget, weighing one pound, has
been found in the Chaudferre mining dis
trict, Canada.
An unnatural mother, in Macon, Georgia
recently laid her newborn infant on rail
road track
An only son of the late Hon. VIM L. Day
ton, is to marry the only daughter of the Hon.
George Ii. Pendleton.
Madame Montholon, wife of the French
Minister at Washington, is a native of ST.,
Louis, and was originally Gratiot.
woman of Utica, Just deceased, was mar
ried three times, and each time her husband s
name was Tompkins.
Col. r. NJ. Little, local editor of the Dav-
enport Gazette, has an inheritance of S75,-
600 awaiting him in Dublin.
young married lady in Ohio, recently
hanged herself, because her husband scolded
her for giving SIG in charity.
a lady slipped in the streets at Coyington.
KY, last Saturday, and killed an infant she
was carrying in her arms.
Since 1852, George Peabody has given a
way Sl,000,000 or about $1,000 day for
Ii years, emitting Sundays and holidays.
The principal mill owners at Lawrence,
Massac chusetts, have resolved to reduce the
wages of their operatives.
Beard, the celebrated animal painter, has
just begun a painting illustrative of the say
ing, at rains cats and dogs"
4 bookseller Of Paris, being asked for a
copy ofthe French Constitution, replied, ''Sir,
keep no periodicals.
The English people are great cheese-eat-
ers, the consumption of that article annually
in Great Britain being S2l ,250,O 600 lbs.
A salt well in Tuscaroras County, Ohio,
itlOS wv UtI tC4S WI MolIt Su44O.iS
of the water furnishing a bushel of salt.
DR.. Herring, OF Philadelphia, the Nestor
of homeopathy in this country, celebrated his
seveniieth birthday last week.
The rumor prevails that Speaker Colfax
will, next month, lead the rich widow of a
wealthy New York Banker to the altar.
Gen. Phil. Sheridan denies the soft i'm
parchment that he is soon to lead Louis
Ianna belle and heiress 10 the altar.
In Taunton, Mass, a malicious scoundrel
the other day, stabbed in the hips and sides
all the horses tied around the city square.
Petitions are being circulated and largely
signed, asking the Illinois legislature to es-
tablsh impartial suffrage in that State.
Twenty wreckers on Roanoke Island, Va,
have been arrested for plundering the steam
ship Sheridan of 100000 worth of goods.
In Fox county, Missouri, store clerk, af-
ter lighting his pipe, threw the match into an
open key of powder. He wont do It again
in this world.
y lecturing professor of Chemistry said re-
Gently to college class near Boston "Gen-
tlemen, oxygen is an inuiSible gas; you see
at in these bell glasses.
John G.. Ryan, who was arrested at Mem
phis, Tennessee, some eighteen months ago.
on suspicion of being Suuatt, is seeking dam
ages for false Imprisonment.
At Pittsfield, Mass, one day last week, a
funeral party were compelled to abandon the
corpse in a snow storm, and it remained for
several hours in huge snow drift.
Dr. Siribling, in his annual report to the
directors of the Insane Asylum at Staunton,
recommends that the Legislature should make
prompt and suitable provision for the care
and cure of insane colored persons in Va.
The countries that have already taken pos
session of their allotted spaces in the Paris
Exhibition building, are England, Belgium,
the United States, Austria, Spain, Portugal.
Switzerland, Greece, Denmark, Russia, F.
gypt, China, Japan, Persia, Morocco, Tunis
and Siam.