The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-11-12
MISCELLANEOUS.
Getting shorter-the days.

South.
A new Odd Fellows Hall wss dedicated at
Catasauqua on Saturday.
$3.50, 300 in specie was shipped from New
York to Europe on Saturday.
President johnson has proclaimed a treaty
with the Sacs ard Fox Indians.
On the increasc-murders aud crime in
the South.
The Canadians have subscribed $4,000
for DARCY M'Gee's widow.
A late Quarterly Review estimated the
population of the world at l,350, 200 ,0Go.
- London has Mormon Church with
1000 members.
The women Of this country wear 35l,-
000,000 yards of calico.
One county in Nevada casts but six
votes.
Fish were boiled in the ocean of Chill
in The earthquake of August last.
The wheat crop of 1868 is said 70 be lar
ger than has been known for several years.
Brigham Young. it is said, is going to re-
tire to private lite with the prophets-S3.-
100000
Que Of the survivors of Kane's Arctic
Expedition is helmsman Of Cincinnati
street car.
A cow in Nashville. the other dav ate
farmers coat with $500 in greenba cks in
he pocket.
About Sl5OO0,00O, were ira nsmitted BY
the money order post offices during the past
6-cal year.
An Iowa girl of sixteen recently killed
large lynx with corn cutter after it had
whipped two dogs.
Mrs. Mary Small. of Maine. has one hum
dred and nineteen great grandchildren liy-
ing. Muitun IN parro.
A New York jeweller has made gold
chain worth $1,000, which he intends TO
give the next President.
The Presbytery Of Newton. by vote of
20 to Il, has disa pproved the fret article of
the General Assembly basis of reunion
Mary Bliss has obtained divorce from
Frank Bliss, in New Haven. for abandoning
his welded Bliss in quest of illegal BLISS.
A black snake measuring feet IL inch
es. was lately shot on the Leh gh Mountain,
by Chas Il. Luch, of South BethIehem
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has declared that all small stills are to be
stopped.
Some of our grain merchants predict a
heavy fall in the price of gram Those who
have it TO sell had better watch the market
The total value of the slate quarries west
of the Lehigh river and IN the vicinity Of
Slatington, is about 81 100000,
The author of the hymn beginning-"I
would not live always" Is still living and
is eighty years of age.
"A woman in Troy has been arrested
fer inadvertently stealing her own chick
ems.
An English rector was caught using
srsyestones for a new and much admired
| Sidewalk in front OF his residence.
Gunners should remember that Ia ~ war
passed last winter inflcIing 5 fine of TWEEN
| ty-five dollars for shooting insectiverous birds
at any seas"n of the year.
The reason that ladies get ahead faster in
this world shan gentlemen, is because they
walk upon the fore part of their feet princi.
paly.
All subscribers who owe Us more than 5
years su5sc riptons are requested to send US
lock of their har SO lha, we may know
that thy are living.
The Commissioner of Agriculture says
that if our soil WAS cultivated one inch deep
er, Sl50,000.000 would be added 10 the
wealth OF our country.
A gentleman who chews fine cut " thai
within a few wer ks the quantity of the weed
inclnsed in the ordinary papers has been d.
minished one third.
Bishop Kemper, of Wisconsin, visited
Easton, his birthplace. Sunday week, and
preached in Trinity church IN the morning.
He is seventy-nine years old.
- Forty Thousand yourg men come of
age IN Pennsylvania this year. AS resun
the tailors are all busy making freedom
suits
- Five Thousand dollars insurance was
paid this week by Hartford Co. on SIM
gle sheep which died IN Middlebury, Yer
mont.
In Havcrhill, Mass., last week, two
little boys found jug OF rum, and bo'h drank
IRE ely o the liquor. One oil them, ten years
oi age, lied IN lew hours.
correspondent wants TO know what kind
Of an agricultural product horre-races are
they being the chief thing exhibited at ag
rlcallurai fairs.
Brigham Young says he wouid be willing
u give up half of his wives If he were Ger.
tain they would get husbands. who could
"lead them 10 eternal salvation"
Mr.. Seward has made grand contribu-
lion TO scirnce in the purchase OF Alaska
Over two thousand varieties of birds are on
their way from his new acquisition.
man in New Jersey has recovered a
verdict OF $500 against another, because a
child of the former was drowned in tub
which the latter had placed at his door,
"Mother" Bickerdyke, the famous hosp-
tai nurse of The Western armies during The
war, is keeping hotel at Salina. one ofthe
sta tons on the Kansas Pacific railroad.
Swearing on the Bible was first intro
duced into judicial proceedings by the Sax