The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1869-01-21
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| 1t Is very easy thing Tor man 10 DC
wise for other people.
Get your Job Printing done at the
Office of the JEFFERsoNIAN.
There are 10000 Spaniards in New
York.
In Michigan City potatoes are selling
at 50 and 10 cents per bushel.
Antelope meat from Omaha sells for
six cents pound in Chicago.
Several towns is Mississippi are prepar-
ing to establish cotton factories.
! Boston is getting four huge fire alarm
bells made in Albany.
Cattle dealers drive fat cattle from
Western Iowa to the Rocky Mountains.
Bishop Potter, of New York, is said to
purpose resigning.
Senator Chandler was reelected by the
Michigan Legislature on Wednesday.
Two Jewish synagogues are to be erect
ed in Titusville next Summer.
1t is reported that in Elk county snow
lies to the depth of three feet.
Mad dogs have made their appearance
in Westnoreland county.
The public schools of South Bethlehem
arc attended by seven hundred pupils.
1t is said that ladies are beginning to
adorn their note paper with photograph
of themselves instead Of a monogram.
Capt. 0. A. Luckenbach, of Bethle-
hem, announces himself as candidate
for the Collectorship of this district.
A young friend of ours who recently
married handsome but scolding woman,
calls, her "a thing of beauty and a jaw
forever"
Deer meat in very abundant in the in
terror markets-and dear meet is very
abundant in Mauch Chunk.
Counterfeit postal currency is circulat-
ing extensively, and so NE oft is calculat-
ed to deceive the most scrutinizlng. Ii
should be closely watched.
At the New Hampshire District con
vention all the present Congressman were
renomiuated by acclamation.
Special Revenue Commissioner Wells
is re organizing the Bureau of Statistics,
as branch department of the Treasury
A Fast boy on skates skated from Buf.
fslo, Iowa, to Davenport, a distance of
ten miles, the other day in forty minutes.
There are a great multitude of indi-
viduals who are like blind mules, anxious
enough to kick, but cant tell where"
Hops have been bad speculation to
parties engaged in raising them in Yer
mount the past season.
The Owen paper company at Housa-
tonic, Mass, manufacture the paper on
which postage stamps are printed.
The Union Iron Mills, in Pittsburg,
cost ST, 500, 600 and cover one acre aud a
balf of ground. -Four hundred and six
teen hands are employed.
/ Mr. II. Huth, of Milton, Northumber-
land county, distributed one hundred
loaves of bread among the poor of that
village on Christmas morning.
1t is said that Gen Grant has decided
to give the Secretaryship of the Treasury
to New Yorker, but has not yet chosen
the gentleman.
Sixty civilian agents and clerks of the
Freedman's Bureau in Louisiana, have
been discharged, thus reducing the estab-
lishment to small proportions.
The female clerk employed by large
dry goods house in Boston get one per
cent. on all their sales besides regular
daily wages.
At recent church social in Maysville
Chautauque county, two sisters perambu.
lated the room selling kisses to the bre-
thern at ten cents piece.
An ardent youth in Chicago was poi
soned the other day by the cosmetic bloom
which his lips absorben from the cheek
Ct bis sweetheart.
| There is gentleman living in Chilli
cothe who was member of the jury
empanelled to try Aaron Barr Tor high
treason.
A brilliant young lawyer in Troy has
just cleared counterleter from well
merited punishment. The rascal paid
him very literally in counterfeit green
backs.
Salt Lake city is now within four days
of Chicago, by stage and railroad Wells
| Fargo 4 Co.'S stages now connect with
the Union Pacific at Evanton, % miles,
and "a hours ride from Salt Lake.
Commodore VIM. d. Salter, U. S. N,
died on Sunday at Elizabeth, n. j., aged
a. lie was the last survivor Of those
who fought upon the constitution in her
glorious action with the Guerriere.
Two men in Monona county have been
quarreling about the ownership of a
twenty-five cent -four bag. At last ac-
counts they were in the district court with
costs already amounting to nearly $500.
Gen. Mcclellan has declined the prof
fered Presidency Of the California Uni
versity, and says that the position he at
present holds gives him $4,000 to SIS,
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