The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1869-02-25
MISCELLANEOUS

book.
The Moravian mission in Greeland is
1856 years old.
There were SO Methodist churches
dedicated in 1868.
A "Newsboys' Homo" has been organ
lied in Philadelphia.
Sing Sing prison contains 1888 male
and 134 female convicts.
General Lee is to set up farm in con-
nection with his college.
A fountain at Bennington, Vt, throws
stream 169 feet high.
GLASGOW has chimney Ash feet high,
the tallest in the world.
New Orleans has had wedding be-
tween youth of eighty and a matron Of
Is.
~ A house in Lewiston, Me-, was robbed
of several hundred dollars worth OF jewel
ry on Friday night.
Francis McQuade machinst of Iowa,
is under arrest in Boston, charged with
making bogus five cent pieces.
Three men were killed by the explo-
sion of locomotive at Rich Station, on
the Union Pacific Railroad, last Friday.
a man recently brought in bill of 81
against his brothers estate in San Fran
cisco, "for loss of time in attending the
| funeral"
San Francisco despatched five hundred
vessels in 1868 with cargoes valued, in
the aggregate, at little less than TWEEN
| ty three million dollars.
None of the barons appointed to en-
force the provisions of Magma Charta has
q descendant to represent him in the pre-,
sent House of Lords.
At recent fashionable wedding in
Paris, one of the handsomest dresses was
one "blue from bonnet to shoe," worn by
a pretty American girl.
The steamer Nellie Stevens was burn
cd in Caddo Lake, Red River, La., on
Thursday night of last week Sixty
three lives are reported last.
The salaries of Queen Victoria and the
family amount to $3,006,000 annually
in gold. The prices of coal and -four
never trouble them.
At an agricultural dinner farmer
gave as his toaat 1.-The Game of For
tune-Shufie the cards as you will,
spades must win"
California's population is only one.
fourth female. In Nevada there ara
eight men to one woman, and In Colorado
twenty to one.
1t is said that 120 velocipedc patents
have been applied for already in this
country. One hundred caveats, in addi
ton to the above, are also on file.
The appearance of popular singer
with Grecian bend was preceded at a
Chicago concert by the orchestra playing
"The Camels arc canning"
One district in Kentucky has Of listil
lerics, of which 25 were in operation in
January. The product of q of them
was 3l4, 900 gallons of whiskey.
The position of arbitrator upon a
boundary question between Great Britain
and Portugal, has been accepted by the
President Of the United States.
1t is rumored from Charleston that
flibustering parties, including Cubans
are leaving various points on the Georgia
and Florida coasts for Cuba.
Paris, Kentucky, which manufactures
more whiskey than any other place of its
size in the country, is making prepara
tions to hold temperance meeting
No one is allowed to attend school in
Evansville, Indiana, who does not present
a certificate of vaccination to the teacher
Small pox is prevalent there.
Eighty persons have applied for divorce
at the February term of the Fort Wayne
(Indianal Common Pleas Court-a large
per cent-age from adjoining States.
General Fitzpatrick said at Holyoke,
Mass, the other day, tkat the proceeds of
his lectures this Winter had been $l0,-
600 for himself and $4,000 for the
Grand Army of the Republic.
Prof. Goldwin Smith has not only Civ
en- his time and services gratutouoly to
the Cornell University, but purposes de.
posting his valuable historical library
with the new institution.
Mr.. James Doyle, we'll known lawyer
vi hiidueiphia, was louuu IN tne street
carly Sunday morning, badly wounded in
his head. lie did in few minutes after
being carried home.
Three men were arrested at Odin, ILL.,,
on Friday night, in the act of robbing
the mails while being transferred from
one train to another. The mails have
been robbed at that point for over year
The Okalona, Miss News says that
Mr. IIares of that place has knocked
velocipede wagons and locomotives out of
existence by the invention of selfpro.
peller that runs fifteen miles an hour
over ordinary roads.
| Robert Dale Owen comes out in the
Boston Advertiser in vigorous opposition
to the latest constitutional amendment.
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