The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-12-21
MISCELLANEgU nj Us.

eats mice at lunch.
There is fine sleighing in Eastern
Maine.
Providence consumes annually 2,069,
437 gallons of milk.
Baker City, Oregon, has cast gold
brick worth 81 600.
Cincinnati drinks beer to the amount
of S6,699, 600 per annum.
Hon. William H. Seward is reported to
be very low from stroke of paralysis.
Governor Geary announces that the
State debt has been reduced 50, 1Sl,-
590.l7 during the fiscal year.
Corn in Central Illinois selling for 80
cents bushel, oats for 80 cents and rye
for so cents.
The temperance men of the State are
organized to besiege the Legislature fol
prohibitory laws.
Oil strikes are exciting the people Of
Pithole, and new wells are being opened
every day.
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opened in Chicago, Christmas eve. 1t
will hold 200 persons.
The loss of lie by the Chicago FIRE will
probably not exceed 200, including all
those now missing.
There are three towns in Massachusetts,
over sixty years old which never have
had building burn down.
Returns received at the Agricultural
Bureau indicate that the cotton crop will
yield three and one ird million bales
There is now living in Williamsport,
VT, lady, aged eighty-fou years, who
has had thirty-three children of her own
She has been three times married.
The Chicago Post says the bell worn by
the COW that kicked over the lamp that
set fire to Chicago is on exhibition in that
city in sixty-one different places.
They do the marriage business by
wholesale in Bradford county Eight
couples were united by one ceremony in
Towanda, one day last week.
1t is said that two young ladies were
recently caught jumping over stick in
down-tow back yard the other day
When asked what it meant, they said they
were "practicing for leap year"
The Abilene (Kansas) Chronicle says
cattle shipping is about over. Since the
tenth of May 1888 carloads, or 35,7S4
head Of cattle, have been shipped at that
point. -.re ..
A man who "ordered everything on the
bill of fare" at Syracuse hotel, was
shortly astonished to behold approaching
him fourteen walters in single file, bear
ing one thousand and twenty four dishes.
An Iowa merchant sent dunniDg let
ter to a man, who replied by return mail;
- ou say you are holding my note yet.
Just keep holding on to it, and if you
find your hands slipping, spit on them
and try it again. Yours af1ec.ionately."
The cold weather of last week through.
out Pennsylvania is represented by our
exchanges as having been intensely
severe, and number Of cattle in differ
ent localities were frozen to death in their
stalls.
Alexis is expected to reach Chicago on
the 29th inst, and General Sheridan has
invited him to participate in buffalo
hunt, and, to enhance the interest of the
occasion, one thousand Sioux Indians are
to be on hand.
Some astounding developments have
just been made relative to the New York
city voucher theft. Several of the par
ties who are implicated having fed to
Europe warrants were sent after them, and
there is probability of their arrest.
One of the men who recently robbed
the Southern Express Company, at Union
City, Tenn, while being taken there for
trial, in custody of detective, yesterday,
attempted to escape by jumping from a
steamboat, but being unable to swim
ashora was drowned
Col. Dckes's California mustang mare
Kate, trotted twenty miles over a heavy
track in fifty nine minutes and thirty Sc
conds, in San Francisco, last week Her
owner then offered to wager 81 900 that
she could trot another mile Immediately
inside of 2:55, but there were no takers
Miss Marry Fl. Graves was on Thurs
lay last ordained as pastor of the Unitar.
an Church in Mansfield, Mass Miss
iraves is the first of her sex to enter the
Unitarian ministry Massachusetts,, and
he second in the whole denomination.
Mrs. Celia Burleigh being the first.
On the 25th ult., one hundred and
eight casas of cabinet work were shipped
o Glasgow, from New York, on the steam
n India fourteen packages of furniture
we're shipped to Jamaica, one case of fur
liture to Tompica, and four rolls of mat.
ing to Paris