The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-06-01
MISCELLANE US.
Florida promises huge orange crop.

Florida promises huge orange crop.
Over twelve hundred churches were
built.in the United States last year.
Both Houses of the Penn'a. Legislature
adjourned on Saturday last.
A shad weighing 25 pounds was re-
Gently caught in the Hudson.
Cider has been decided by the Massa-
chusetts legislature not to be an In in
toxicating liquor.
The cholera is said to be quite virulent
at St. Peterburg, and is exciting some
alarm among the people.
Ex-Governor Curtin has been re. elect
ed President of the Pennsylvania Reserve
Association.
The daily product of petroleum is
estimated at $4,000 barrels day in the
Pennsylvania oil regions.
Edwin i. Stanton, son of the late
Secretary Stanton, has been appointed
Secretary of the District of Columbia.
Lafayette College, at Easton, has 233
students. The Annual Commencement
takes place on the Goth and 2lst of June.
Joseph Horn, one of the oldest citizens
of Easton, died in that borough on Sun
day 18th inst.
A young man bearing the rare name
of Smith, was arrested in Catasauqua, re-
Gently, for lighting cigar in church
taken before Justice and fined 81 so.
A woman advertises in the Nashville
papers for her children, saying that she
has had twenty seven, and knows the
whereabouts of only three of them.
Horace Greeley last week was in Texas
and on Tuesday delivered an address be-
fore the State Agricultural Fair at Hous
ton.
To measure cistern, square the in
ches in diameter, and multiply by OO3 ;
multiply by inches in depths for number
of gallons, and divide by 35 for the con
tents in barrels.
Reports from various parts of Fayette
county, indicate that in spite of the frost:
and seemingly unfavorable whether, the
prospects for large crop of fruit is good
Oats are said to look poor.
A sharper of unusual dexterity has
been extensively swindling the Erie Rail
way Company recently by selling spur
ious travelling tickets, admirably initiated
from the genuine.
The Democratic Convention at Har,
risburg nominated w. McCandless, OF
Philadelphia, for Auditor General, and
j. III. Cooper, of Lawrence county, fo
Surveyor General.
In Wisconsin the pigeons are destroy
ing the crops. They despoil the fields o
wheat, and all grain sowed is as good as
lost. Hundreds Of fllocks, counting birds
by millions, are flying over the State.
Three hundred dollar parasols hav,
made their appearance in New York
The tops are of lace, either black or white
and the handles of some are carved coral
while others are of gold, with vine OF sill
yer and gold leaves.
There is great suffering throughou
the State of Ohio for the want of rain
The wells are drying up, and there is
scarcity of water for cattle in many parts
There has been no rain for many week:
and the ground is parched.
Bueuos Ayres is suffering terribly from
the epidemic yellow fever, and is almos
deserted by its inhabitants, only one
fifth of the population remaining within
its limits. According to the latsst intel
ligence, the deaths exceed six hundred
day, and the native doctors had fed, leav
ing the sufferers to the care of the few
foreign physicians. About $4,000 per
sons have already died and $4,000 wer
i'll, most of whom would not recover.
The bill restoring the Spring election
got through the Legislature at last o.
Friday. 1t simply repeals the section o
the Registry law that directed the hold
ing of them in October. Clearfeld coun
ty is exempted from the general law, an
will hold her local elections in December
Township and borough officers will b
elected, as formerly, on the third Frida
of March next.
Vice President Colfax was taken sud
denly i'll in the Senate chamber at Wash
ington, on Monday afternoon of last week
He was taken to room in the Capito
building, where he remained during tn
week, being too much Frustrated to b
removed to his residence. His sicknes
is thought to be the result of excessiv
mental labor. For some days he was i
a very critical condition, but he is no,
nearly out of danger.
The treaty lately concluded betwee
our Government aud Great Britain wa
ratified hv .ha Sanata On Wa1nasdov