The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-04-27
MISCELLAN E O US.

A. III. BoRNsoN, of Titusville, is 60
ing to build stable to cost So 900.
The New Jersey militia are to go into
camp six days this summer.
The Methodists of Canada are divided
into FIVE separate ecclesiastical bodies.
Over twelve hundred churches were
built in the United States last year. II
Iu California poplars grow from ten to
fifteen feet in single year.
There were $50 deaths, ll6 marriages,
and 359 births in New York last week.
Vermont has twenty seven hundred
and fifty district schools.
There is sassafras tree in Lycoming
county measuring six feet seven inches
in circumference.
Pennsylvania has the largest assessed
valuation Of real and personal estate OF
any State in the Union-$l, ,63 / ,2l9 1886.
In Schuylkill County, Pa, here are
something like 40 collicries, with an in
vested capital OF about Sl2 900, 900.
The "human hair" exported from
Bohemia to the United States during
1870, represented the value OF SS,545.
The Second National Bank of Mauch
Chunk has subscribed $4,000 towards
the new Government loan.
The fruit trees of Southern Illinois are
in full bloom. The prospect Of good
crop is good. Illinois strawberries are
now in Chicogo market.
Toe only prisoners 10 the Jail of J ohm
son county, Ind, are two men, who claim
to be preachers. One is there for horse
stealing and the other for burglary.
Seven cent postage stamps have been
issued. They are designed for letters to
Germany, on which the postage is seven
cents.
A man was told by clergyman to Gre.
member Lots wife," replied that he had
trouble enough with his own, without re-
mel bering other mems wives.
Three hundred and forty five women
in Massachusetts, gave birth in 1869 to
696 children Three hundred and thirty
uine had twins and six had triplets.
Lyons, Iowa, has gone to drifting"
On Monday, heretofore largely Democratic,
it elected a full Republican ticket iuclu-
ding Captain Judsoh N. Cross for Mayor.
The Baltimore American, after a care.
full survey of the political field, asserts
that Maryland will be carried by the
Republicans in 1872.
Senator John Scott has our thanks for
a copy of the report of Select Committee
of the Senate to investigate alleged out
RACES in his speech in Senate on the sub
ject.
A traveller, we are told, being, in a
wild country, where he could fud no pro-
visions for himself or dog, cut off the dog s
tail and boiled it for his own supper, and
gave the dog the bone.
Mr.. Henry T. Newhart, on Fairview
street, killed monster rat Wednesday
weighing seven and quarter pounds =
Who can beat this on rats ?-Bethiehem
Times.
Forty negro churches and school houses
have been burned in the State Of Missis-
sippi within the past few weeks. We
suppose Democracy will lay all the blame
of these outrages for the negros.
Democratic Journals have for weeks
past been asserting that the Republican
party was " drifting away from the con.
fidence of the people. Some evidences
of the " drift" may be fouul in the late
election returns.
A New Hampshire youth let DENTS,
pull all his sound teeth and insert artifica
ones. He said he had the money tc
spare, and he knew the darned things
would ache and have to be pulled some
time.
A writer in the New York Tribune
says that the Turkish bath has been sue
cessfully used in Great Britain as an an
tidote for the cravings of the brunkard
and has proved itself as the most effective
remedy yet known.
The wool interest of California is get
ting to be something immense. Last
year that State produced 20,000,00U
pounds, or 100000 pounds more than
all the British American Provinces, and
nearly one third OF all clipped in the Uni
ted States.
A warrant for the sum of sl37 ,822, iu
full for the payment of the amount due
the State OF Pennsylvania from the United
States for funds expended in equipping
troops for the late war, was issued from
the U. S. Treasury, April IL. The war
rant was paid to Mr.. Evans, the State
agent.
The Petroleum Centre Record gives
the amount of oil held in tank on the
first inst, by j. S. McCray, at 1876, ,772
barrels. The total yield of the McCra,
farm from july Is. 1870. 10 Anril l