The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-12-24
MISCELLANE0U US.


est fashion.
Five thousand hogs are daily packed
at Chicago.
An infant tenor, aged ten, is the last
musical prodigy.
Af OK was killed recently in the streets
of Charleston, S. G.
The "German" is now danced by day.
light in New York.
The cattle plague continues to ravage
Western Wisconsin.
The fg and banana trees in Florida
have been injured by frost.
Country papers arc noticing the alb
sense of snow birds this season.
Fifteen thousand tourists and invalids
visited Florida this season.
The negro race constitutes one-fifth of
the population of the United States.
A. H. Stephens has given readings for
charitable purposes in Savannah.
All volunteer officers except one have
been mustered out of service.
Highway robbers hold the northern
part of New York in reign of terror.
Tandem teams, hitched to two-wheeled
vehicles, are the style on Central Park.
Gen. Vessels, commander at Fort d.
A. Russell, has been struck with paraly-
sis.
A Boston paper says Ladies who don't
wish to dye can get cheap blond wig
for $75.
Charles Dickens, Jr., it is reported
succeeds his father as editor Of "All the
Year Round"
First class New York residences now
contain billiard room, n chapel, and a
theatre or concert saloon.
The average cost of army rations dur
ing the year has been slightly above TWEEN
ty-three cents.
There are twenty seven military arsen-
ais in all including the national armory
at Springfield.
A Cincinnati paper says the public has
lately been affected with great deal of
Railroad Erie tation;
A bridegroom in New York has pre-.
sented his bride with furnished brown
stone mansion for wedding gift.
1t is asserted by the papers of Georgia
that their State Railroad is now In the
interests of a political faction.
TIE Androscroggin Mills, at Lewiston,
Me, employ 1900 operatives, and con-
sumo 5000 bales of cotton every year.
Twenty eight fisherman, of Gloucester,
Mass, have been drowned this year
Seventy were drowned last year.
The New York ladies have sent to
Paris for dresses to wear at charity balls.
Their charity does not begin at home.
The law providing for commutation
of time for good conduct is working very
well with the Island prisoners.
The Detroit river is being surveyed to
ascertain the practicability of tunnel
between Canada and the United States.
A deaf mute in Maine, who was SEN
fenced to be hanged for setting fire to
sn almshouse, has been sent to lunatic
asylum instead.
An old preamble of the English times
of Henry VIII, speakes of "beef, mutton,
pork and veal, which is the common feed
ing of mean and poor persons"
The London Church News suggests
that if the Archbishop of Canterbury
makes an overt act of communion with
DR.. Colenzo, he the archbishop, be ex-
also.
Newspaper decentralization" is the
hy tba R.lt;n,oro
to the practice of some journals in pub
fishing detailed accounts of fashionable |
One of the English dissenting minis
ters warned any of his church members
who should vote for John Stuart Mill for
Parliament not to come to the communion
table.
NJ. De Stjerneld, formerly Swedish
Cabinet Minister, and Ambassador to Eng
land, died at Stock holm on November IL.
He was the last male descendant Of
Gustavus Vasa.
The fortune of the late John l. Nc
Knight, of Bordentown, is estimated at
81 10000. He left $4,000 to the Odd
Fellows for charitable purposes, and the
rest of his property goes to his family.
In the ten paper mills at Holyoke,
NJ ass, about twenty-six tons of paper
ire manufactured daily. About four fifth
of this is writing paper the remainder
collar, envelope and tissue.
An English Court has separated boy
IF Is from his wife, and sent him into the
country to learn trade and grow up be-
'ore he can be allowed to live with her.
He had married his nurse.
On Thanksgiving Day the prisoners at
he Maryland State Penitontiary, about
ix hundred in number, were treated to
IN exhibition of the English Punch and
Judy. 1t was their first audience in
America.