The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-12-17
Louisville papers complain of much
drunkenness among women it that city

has elOped with his hrst vile.
The Duke of Nassau recently invested
one million in United States Bonds.
The number of cadets now at West
Point is 224. Number authorized by law
when all the States are admitted, 29O.
Mr.. J. p. Alexander, called the ''cattle
king" of Illinois, owns $4,000 head OF
cattle.
Three dry goods clerks employed by
one firm in New York are paid Sl0, ,00V
year each,
The Cuban revolutionary flag has blue
and white stripes and tsiangular field
with large white star.
BY the rejection of certain votes, color
ed man from Louisiana claims seat in
the present Congress.
A St. LOUIS husband has applied for
divorce on the ground that his vile
throws the children at his head.
Five cents pound is considered Il
good price for vension in Western Mis-
souri,.
Three millions of pieces, worth nearly
halt million of dollars, were coined at
the Philadelphia Mint last week.
There has been an official count of the
cats in Paris, and the number is found to
be 7O0,824.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
has in contemplation the erection OF 4
new depot at Mauch Chunk
1t is calculated that at least threefourths
of the Members Of Congress will 80 home
to enjoy the holidays.
/ The tax rate for Philadelphia next
year has been increased from one dollar
aud forty to one dollar and eighty cents
} on one hundred dollars.
The Washington damscl who married
II ole in-the day, the Indian chief, is now
penniless widow, seeking for u chance
to do housework in Minnesota.
Lamucl Scherer, of Northampton Coun
ty. was found dead in a barn recently,
and the coroner's jury returned verdict
Of TOO much rum.
A man in Indiana was chokcd to death
by piece Of beef, on Thanksgiving Day
and his neighbors say it was judgment
on him for not eating turkey.
A lady in Vermont had tripets, and
!, she named them Faith, Hope and Charity
She neglects to report whether Charity is
the greatest.
Experienced miners are at work dig
ging d four hundred foot shaft at Quincy
Illinois, in the hope striking coal at that
depth.
At least s50,O0O,OOO are involved in
4 the mining Of copper in Michigan, and
$4,000 to 10000 people are dependen,
upon the mines.
After the first of January. 1869, no
person can take advantage OF the bank
rupt law unless be can pay fifty cents on
The dollar.
Five dollars and turkey to each was
the Thanksgiving present of two Boston
gents to the Soldiers Messenger Corps
there.
A man by the name of Lewis was xii
len on the New Jersey Central Railroad.
near Spriogtown, He was under the in
auence of liquor.
A North Carolinian bet ten gallons OF
tar that he could drink quart Of brandy
and walk mile before it Slowed him -
He won his tar, but was shortly after
buried.
Mr.. Lafayette Leuts, of Mauch Chunk,
is going into the propagation Of trout
quite extensively. He has 5000 of the
oUd in the batch room connected with his
ponds, on his farm in Carbon county.
Arrangements have been made for q
formal announcements of the death of
Thaddeus Stevens. in the House, on to
day Numerous members will pronounce
enlogies in honor OF his memory.
A California paper says the Chinese
are getting 90 numerous an the Pacific
coast, that they contemplate appointing
missionaries to 10 among the Christians
to convert them to the Chinese religion
! WASHINGTON, Dec II 2-Commissio,
uer Rollins, after interview with Gen.
Grant this afternoon, prior to the Gen
erals departure for Chicago, announced
that he had determined to send in his
unconditional resignation.
The slaughter of wild ducks on the
Susquehanna and rivers in Maryland
commenced about two weeks ago. The
first day that the law allowed cunning, over
1000 ducks were killed on the Susque.
hanna alone.
At recent fair in Easton cane was
voted for, to be presented to 1.-The most
contrary man |" John McMulin and
James Donnelly. two conductors on the
Lehigh Valley Railroad, received two
votes each.
BosToN, Dec. 13.-Deacon Andrews.
was committed to State prison last night
for twenty years, for the murder OF
Holmes. He commenced with twenty
four hours" solitary confinement. He
appeared to be in good spirits.