The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-07-18
MISCELL US.
Montana hasn't got any bees.


The seasons wool clip in California will
reach 50,000,000 pounds.
Four hudred new oil wells are drilled
in the oil regions every month.
Richmond, Va, celebrated the Fourth
this year for the first time since 1860.
A cat was recently sold in Montpelier,
VT, for forty dollars.
Maine farmers confidently look forward
to an abundant harvest.
The New Hampshire hay crop is esti
mated to be one half larger than last year
A young lady, recently betrothed, says
that &c. .. d." means "call on dad"
1t is reckoued that sixty tons of steel
are consumed annually in the manufacture
of pens.
Thirteen tons of strawberries were re
Gently sent into the London market in
two days.
We send to Great Britain annually
Sl5,O0O,0oO in gold for the single article
of spool cottn.
An Illinois firm will pickle the product
of one hundred and fifty acres of cucum-
bers.
Gold has been discovered in Hooyer's
Valley, Texas, and workmen are panniug
out from IS to $40 day.
Phillips, Maine, had a suowdrift three
feet deep on the 4th, within four rods of
which ripe strawberries were growing.
To the trial of Stokes, the jury being
unable to agree upon the verdict, were
discharged, and Stokes was remanded to
Jail.
The California wheat crop this season,
it is said, will be enormous. Their sur.
plus for expectation will be about ten
million bushels
A Portland man went into a shop and
stumbled through his errand in this
fashion Il want some white woman's
long legged cotton stocking hose
Four hundred and forty six Mormons
have arrived in New York from Europe
en- route for Salt Lake. Six Mormon
accompanied them across the
ocean.
The physicians of New York report an
alarming increase of cancer on the nose
causen by the practice of wearing eve
2 glasses that are held on the bridge of the
nose BY spring.
A constable in Ohio lately testified in
court as follows: L know nothing of her
but what | hear the neighbors say and,
n my opinion, what a woman says of
another is not worthy of belief
"Where are you going so fast, Mr.
Smith Z" demanded Mr. Jones. "Home
ir, home don't detain me have Just
bought my wife a new bonnet, and must
deliver it before the fashion changes.
Five cents is all that is now charged to
end less than SO of money by Post Of |
ice orders. The rates for amounts over
'l0 remain as before. This is in accord. |
nee with orders issued June 20, 1872.
In removing the bodies from an old
,urying ground to the new cemetery in
-e Roy, N. Y, recently, the remains of
ady about 60 years of age, who had been
'uried nearly twenty years, were found
q complete state of petrifaction, with
he hair perfectly preserved.
Minnie's mother consented to the lit
lie ones saying new prayer all her own.
md this was her solemn utterance: "OI
Lord, bless all the Minnies, and all the
'apas, all the Uncle Authurs. Jesus.
we been vaccinated, and guess it's 60.
ng to work."
1t is said to be a curious fact that while
oxes, cranes and squirrels are abundant
N the Indiana side of the Ohio river,
hey are never seen on the Kentucky side !;
I'd strange enough, the gray squirrel, to
'e found anywhere on the Kentucky side.
rarely or never seen on the Indiana
hore.
The owner of Goldsmith Maid has ask
d Mr.. Bonner to trot either j Joe Daniels
r Dexter against his mare for from s5..
OO to $50, 600. What answer Mr.. Bon.
er will make to this challenge every one
NIL be curious to learn, as it is well
nown that that gentleman has repeated.
Y refused similar ones.
An Iowa COW committed suicide the
ther day, out of grief over the loss off
er calf After following the butchers
'agon to the slaughter house and given
ent to serious of agonizing moans, she
ellberately made her way to the river.
AIDED in beyond her depth and was
rowned.