The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-03-12
MAIN STREET.
GENERAL NEWS.

The internal revenue receipts during
last week amount to $5,4S5,629.
At the Nashville election, on Saturday
the Republicans were successful.
At the election in Memphis, on Satur
day, the Republican ticket was success
ful by majority of from 800 to 1000.
The deleat OF the ambitious Governo,
of Maryland for the United States Sena
torship IS regarded as the last note of The
dying Swami.
1t is reported that Gen. Burnside has
reconsldered his acceptance of the Repub,
tcaa uomiGat;on of Governor of Rhode
4sland, ara will decline it,
TIE California Senate has requested
Gov. Haight Immediately to telegraph to
Washington its resolutions commencing
The action of Congress.
An avalanche at keystone. Sierra Co.,
Cal, On the 4Ih inst, buried IL men in
the snow. Nine were killed. Several
buildings were destroyed.
The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate
waited on President johnson at 4 p VI
OH Saturday, aud served on him the sun
mons to appear at the Court of Impeach-
ment.
a great freshet prevails in the North
West BY the breaking of the ice gorge
at Aurora. H., on Saturday, several
dams and bridges were swept away. The
water is higher than ever before.
The wages of four prominent Euro
peans are as follows: Napoleon Sl3-
240 a day. Queen Victoria, Ss027 =
Francis Joseph sl0,G50, and the King
OF Prussia, sS2l0.
Since the beginning Of the present Gs
cal year. July lst, 1857, the total re
ceiptsof internal revenue have been Sl3i,
S38. Obs ,SS-a great falling off. Last
week the receipts~wcre S5,4S4,629,44.
The proposed amendment to the Via
eonsip Constitution giving the right OF suf-
frage to women was killed in the Assem-
bly, few days ago. The resolution sub
uniting it to Il vote at the election in
1SGS was lost = Yeas, 80; Nays, II.
Col. Grau. the author of the Ordinance
under which Arkansas seeded in 1861
and ex Gov. Rector, leading Coniede-
rate, have both declared in favor of Re
construction Col Grau saws it is the
most generous offer ever extended to 8
free people.
The Charleston Mercury still keeps up
It's courteous heading for the South Car
olina Convention = The Great Ring
Streaked and Striped Negro Convention
The UercHJy is owned and edited by the
elite Of Palmetto chivalry and aristo racy.
John Forsyth Of The HoGjZe Register
tosses Andrew Johnson aside. He =
johnson never affiliated with Democrats,
that he allowed the Phila lelphil Conyen
ton to fail, and has declined to turn out
Republican Office holders 20 give pace 10
the hungry Democracy.
In Charleston they are beginning tol
admit that white men Of they are ''poor
whitcs'') may work for living One
merchant is hiring white men to load and
unload vessels, instead of negroes hereto
fore employed When white men Trough
out the South roll up their sleeves and goI
to work restoration will he half accom-
Plisbed and Southern property assured.
The President has approved the FOL
lowing bill, viz If any person or per
sons eutitled to the bounty provided b.
sections II and l3 Of the act making p .ro
priations for the civil service. approved
July %, 1868. or shall die before recelv-
ing said bounty, its hall be paid to the
heirs Of the soldiers as designated in said
act, in the ordertherein named, and toI
none other
A new post Office bill has been intro
duced into the Senate, which contains
among other things wholesome provi
sion against the lottery swiudlere. The
sending of circulars Of lotteries, gift con
certs. and similar devices through the
mails is prohibited, permission being Civ
en- to post masters to send such missives
10 the Dead Letter Office. This is pro-
perly enforced will have a tendency 70
break up system Of fraud of gigantic
proportions.
No grindstone should he exposed toI
the weather. as it Dot only Injuries the
wood work, but the suns rays harden
the stone so much as, IN time, to render
il useless Neither should it run inI
@ster, as the part remaining iD theI
water soItcns SO mnch that it wears
away faster than the other side; and
many soit place in stone has
arisen from this cause alone, and not
from any inequality IN the grit,
We would urge upon every farmer the
importance of keeping correct account
of all he does - not only in his dealings
with the mechanic. merchant aud others
but with himself aud iaIm. Keep an
account of your hired help = the ex
penses of each kind of crop raised = the
product = in TACT, of all expenditures
and receipts 10 farm and household ope
rations You can then at the close OF
the year, tell which crop has paid best
and what npr cent vnn are receiving for