The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-11-26
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ter to Grant.
One firm in Beloit, Wisconsin, has
made during the past year, 500 reapers.
There are just FIVE hundred acres of
public lands left in Ohio.
Mahogany is so abundant in Nevada
as to be used for fuel.
Christmas and New Years come on
Friday this year.
There are 1878 billiard rooms in New
York city and Brooklyn.
Gutta percha houses are suggested for
earthquake countries.
Brigham Young exhorts the Mormon
youths not to whistle and throw peanut
shells in the gallery of his theatare.
The first advertisement was inserted in
London newspaper in 1G4S, and parlia'
meutary reporting had its origin in l6ll.
Senator Sumner predicts that we will
have specie payments by the 4th of July.
Brigham Young is said to be the third
largest depositor in the Bank of England
Potatoes have been down to thirty five
cents bushel in Chicago this season.
October, 1868, averaged four degrees
colder than any October since that of 1856.
Easton has a young lady who weighs
500 pounds.
The grain crop through this State is
reported as being unusally large.
The market at Cairo is flooded with
game, such as wild geese, ducks and tur-
keys.
Wild turkeys are more abundant in
Bedford county than they have been for
many years past.
The marriage presents of a New York
belle last week are valued at $359, 900
exclusive of the groom.
London is to have new large news
paper, in which all he editorials will be
sigued.
The boot and shoe trade of Philadelphia
has received new life from the increased
Southern demand.
A Newburg (N. y lady has been
made the mother of four children at one
birth-two boys and two girls.
The presetts at fashionable New York
wedding last week were worth three
hundred and fifty thausand dollars.
Calitornians expect to make the jour
ney from San Francisco to New York by
rail next Fourth of July.
The British navy, according to the last
report, consisted of 735 steam vessels and
Isl sailing vessels.
A Frsnchman recently drank eighty
fonr cups Of coffee ou wager His life
was saved by an emetic.
The past season has been one of the
most prosperous that the Lynn, Mass,
shoe manufactures have ever had.
One Boston factory makes four tons per
day Of paper hangers and book binders
paste. The best quality of -four is used
for this purpose.
There is a sweet sixteen boy in Belle
fonte, Centre county, Pa, whose feet are
sixteen inches in length. lie growed
there.
The Houston Union says that the ques-
tion Of dividing Texas into three States
viii be agitated on the reassembliDg Of
the Convention in December next.
Mr. Heimbold, the druggist, desires the
public to be informed that the rumors
circulated by some Of the journals in re
gard to his sanity are without foundation.
Flour was recently passed on board D
steamer at st. Louis from an elevator at
the rate of one hundred barrels in four
minutes.
The citizens of Harrisburg and the
towns upon the Susquehanna river above
that city, are meking arrangements to
stock the river with black bass
In Texas, cattle over year old, not
branded, are common property. The San
Antonio market is being stocked with
unmarked cattle.
Hon. Ezra Cornell has received more
than two thousand letters from young
men asking admission to the Cornell
University, on the manual labor basis.
Vast quantities of liquoricc are brought
to New York city from Spain, to be
ground up and mixed with chewing tobac,
co.
Pittsburg has o9,25S inhabitants and
Allegheny City has 5l,292. The popu-
ation of the county is estimated at 24O,-
600.
Franklin county puts in 1904 war
claims, Fulton 127, Perry 5, Bedford Al,
and Cumberland 1872. Adams will be
between ST 500, 900 and s2,oOO,O0O.
A girl in Ebensburg, Cambria county,
who was caught applying torch to her
employers dwelling, said she was insti-
gated to set it on fire by the devil.
Early in the fall it was feared the po-
tato crop would be failure but the frost
failed to injure the tops, and so the yield
is larger and better than was at first an
ticipated
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