The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1869-02-11

A gentleman in Portland, Me-, propo
ses to publish cyclopedia of meannesses
which he has been noting down for many
years.
In London scarlet fever had destroyed
fifteen lives (of children chiefly every
day for thirteen weeks before the last
mail left.
The weather has been SO fine in Min
nesota that the Legislature finds itself un-
able to keep quorum for more than an
hour day.
The editor of the Vicksburg Times
says: ave have before us invitations to
a private musical soree, a cock fight and
wedding"
General Moorhead, of Pennsylvania, is
10 favor of ex- Governor Andrew G.. Cur
tain for position in General Grants
Cabinet.
Judge Cantwell, of Wilmington, n c.,
has decided that no man can whip wife
under the pretence of reasonable correc-
ton"
Mary Cummiskey, New York servant
girl, on Monday evening last caught and
captured a burglar who entered the house
where she was employed.
The Board of Trade of st. Louis have
endorsed the protest Of the Philadelphia
Board Of Trade, against the so per cent
provision of the Bankrupt act.
The Associations for the protagapion
of game in our state have now $4,000
birds which will be let loose in the spring
Send few for the bowers of Monroe
IF the scheme on foot for making a
voyage across the Atlantic in balloon
succeeds, we shall have a dozen lines of
balloons running opposition to the steam
ers in less than year.
Since the removal of the restrictions Of
the press of Spain and Cuba there been a
great newspaper revival, some thirty new
ones having started in Havana, while fif.
teen have sprung up in Madrid.
a circus seems to be profitable in
veStmeut. The report of one years busi-
ness of prominent one that is going a.
round the country shows Sl94,700 rece-
ipts, and profits over expenses of $50. 100.
4 merchant in Lewiston, Me, who
some years since settled with his creditors
by paying them fifty cents on dollar,
has been prosperous since. and last week
voluntarily paid them the balnace.
The Easton Ne,cs says that Mrs Hill,
who was murdered lately in Philadelphia
by George Twitchell, was many years ago
a resident Of Easton, and was known rs
big Soph."
On Friday, night week Mr.. Christian
Bertsoh, residing in Lehigh tsp, North
amption Co., had a horse stolen out of his
stable. The horse thief gang is not yet
broken up as We supposed.
If any of our ambitions velocipedists
wish to practice, in the absence of
machine, let them mount a hog and ride
it through the streets. They say it is
capital exercise.
A Minnesota steer recently had the
misfortune to have hay stack cave in
over him. His owner discovered him
two weeks afterwards, fat and hearty,
having eaten his way thirty feet through
the stack.
Five days Imprisonment in Jail has been
thought sufficient punishment for a man
in Exeter, n. Ii :, who lifted his children
by the hair, and tore a portion of his
wife's scalp off. Possibly it was not
"their own hair"
Chicago continues to be famous. Re
Gently boy there, nine years old, beat an
Indian girl, ten years old, so severely
that she died of her injuries A few
days later he shot his cousin, nine years
old, aud killed him.
Several cattle have died after few
hours violent illness, on a farm at Fish.
kill Plains, Duchess county, n. Y, and
postmortem examination is said to have
revealed nothing as to the cause. The
farmers in the vicinity are much alarmed.
A Pittsburg paper says that gang OF
villains from Buffalo, New York and Chi.
cago, have entered into combination to
"do up" the principal cities of the country
during the coming few months on large
scale.
Easton has thirteen churches-two
Methodist, three Lutheran, two Presbyte-
rian, one Catholic, one Jewish, one Dutch
Reformed, one German Reformed, one
Episcopal, and one Baptist.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. Tho President
has pardoned Carlo Latryga aud Francis
Martinetti, who were sentenced in 1866
to serve fifteen years in the State Peniten-
tiary at Frankfort, for counterfeiting
United States currency.
VVoIl-o-, -
Keokuk, Iowa, on Sunday, and his SON.
in law, Wm. Flaman, who was with him,
says they were attacked by four men, one
of whom shot Walkers. Martin Kelley,
who had threatened to take Walkers life
has been arrested.