The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1869-02-18
State News.

The second Tunnel at ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, OH
the DEL Lack. & w. Railroad, is nearly COM
pleted.
The price of coal at Mauch Chunk is S4 for
!: Egg and Chestnut, and $3.50 for Stoves.
There were 461 deaths, 2O4 marriages, and
335 births in New York for the week ending
the 9th inst.
!, Several wells are being sunk at Parker's
Landing, Armstrong county, in search of OIL
The excitement is up to fever heat.
f Samuel Wise, aged about fifty years, was
found dead in the barnyard of David Haine,
f in Lower Heidelberg township, Berks county,
on last Saturday morning.
John Mellert, an old citizen of Reading, as
if determined to convince his friends that he
was tired of life, killed himself with pistol
last Monday morning.
Willis o. Frantz, a lad aged about eleven
years. had his right arm torn off at the elbow
by threshing machine, on Saturday last, at
q the barn of Simon Hostetter, in Warwick town.
ship, Lancaster county.
: A mammoth hotel is to be erected at Bethle-
! hem the coming summer. 1t is to be located
on Fountain Hill, and to cost from $120.OOO
to $l50,O0O, to be modelled after the Herdic
House, of Williamsport, Lycoming county
Pa.
y On Tuesday last, rs a man named Knapp,
with an axe upon his shoulder, was passing
near Shippenville, Clarion county, he slipped
and fell upon the AK, severing the jugular yein
and causing almost instant death.
! On Monday the 1st inst, while several men,
were engaged in rolling Jaw log into the mill
of Samuel Wilson, in Helen township, Clarion
county, the log careened and fell upon John
D. Lyon killing him instantly.
/ Captain John P. Hale, Superintendent of
tho Scott Foundry Of Messrs Seybert, Nc
Manus & Co., and prominent citizen of Read
ing, died on Wednesday oftyphoid penemonia,
after weeks illness. He was a son of Judge
Hale, of Centre county, and brother-in-law
of Secretary Wells, and WAS known throughout
the States and elsewhere.
| A barbor named Kaufman, of Pittsburg,
shot and instantly killed a little boy aged about
eight years, on last Saturday evening. The on
ly reason assigned by the murderer for the rash
act was that the boy, with others, was in the
habit of darkening his window by standing be-
fore it. The murderer was arrested and COM
mitted.
| John Fitstrpaick, of Lancaster, entered the
the United States marine corps in the early
part of the war. His father, Bernard Fitzpa-
trick, hearing no tidings of his son, wrote to
the Secretary of the Navy few days since and
received in reply the sad news that his son was
drawne ed in May, 1866, while on duty off the
Southern coast.
| A party of five or six pedlers spent last Sa-
turday evening in jamestown, Mercer county,
and spent the evening in drunken spree
The wife of one of them went to the house
where they were drinking and succeeded in get
ting her husband out on the street, when his
companions undertook to drag him back
About this time the enraged woman picked up
club and dealt one blow on the back of the
head as to cause his death almost instantly.
Two fatal accidents occurred in Clarion
county. VIM. Reed, while attempting to dis
engage log, tripped and fell, when the log
fell upon him crushing him in such a manner
as to cause his death in twelve hours. While
engaged in showing large log in Wilson's
mill, in Helon township, Mr.. John w. Lyon
tripped and fell, and the log fell upon his head
and crushed it almost to atoms, causing in.
slant death.
A crops of engineers are engaged in making
surveys along the line of the Delaware Division
Canal, with view to the widening of it be-
tween Easton and New Hope, distance of37
miles. The average width of the canal is 25
feet, and it is proposed to increase the width to
40 feet. In some places the work will be
very difficult and expensive one but if it is as
certained that the cost will not exceed $780,
00o the Company will commence the work
without delay.
The Brookville Republican chronicles an
elopement in high life in the south end of JEFF
ferson county, that took place last week 1t
says: "The parties are reverend gentleman
of some reputation, and the fair paramour that
beguiled the pastor was the wife of well-to-do
gentleman and good citizen. The parties mani
pulated affairs SO as to meet in neighboring
city, the gentleman having disposed of his ef-
fects and put himself in shape for a tramp"
On Friday evening, January 3d. while at a
prayer meeting in Rainsburg, Bedford county,
Miss Barbara Hartsock became much excited,
and while shouting fell in trance and was in
sensible, and lay as if asleep, breathing natur-
ally but unconscious from that time until the
morning of the 29th, period of one hundred
and ffty-seven hours, during which time she
took no nourishment whatever. On reviving ,
she began shouting the same as at the time she
fellin the trance, but soon became quiet and
collected as usual At the latest accounts she
was in her usual health and showed no signs
of any evil effects from this singular suspension
Of the mental and r,byuioal f,nct;ans 1900. q