The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-01-04

of her hogs developing 1900.
A Massachusetts, woman made $500
last year by the cultivation of lilies.
Trenton, n j., owns the largest circu
lar saw in the world. 1t is twenty
feet in circumference.
Thirteen robberies were perpetrated in
Philadelphia on Sunday night and Mon
day.
An election for State Treasurer takes
place in Pennsylvania on the 10Th of this
month.
The yield of the silver mines of
Michigan for the present year is set down
at little over one million of dollars.
A chain gang is about to be introduced
at Erie for the punishment of inveterate
vagrants.
A calf was brought forth in Greenwich
township, Berks county, recently, which,
at two hours old, weighed lis pounds.
A venerable goose, supposed to be over
70 years old, still lives at Dover, Mo ac
cording to the Lexington Causcasian.
Mr.. l.. G. Elenberger, of Mount Beth
ell township, last week slaughtered hog
weighing COL lbs. Next -Bethletem
Times
VIM. Long, of Upper Mt. Bethel slaugh
tered last week a hog weighing GIL lbs,
Chester Hoyt Breed. Next ?-Easton
Free Press.
Bituminous coal was first mined near
Richmond, Va, about the year 100
Hard anthracite was discovered in the
Lehigh region in 1871.
We hear a great deal about Labor Re
form, but there seems to be greater
need of reforming some of these fellows
who don't labor.
In storm near New Albany, Ind,
last Saturday, horse, buggy and two
men were lifted up and carried distance
of forty feet, but escaped unhurt
A lawyer hung out his shingle in
Gowanus, l.. l., for two years, and then
left, as he had only one case 10 all that
time, and that was iuhammatory rheuma
tism, aud nearly killed him.
Up near Greensburg Pa, they have a
rivalry in sausages. One man made one
80 feet long, and then another made one
90 feet long and want to know who can
beat that.
A Newburyport woman who began
sewing with machine twelve years ago,
when she was fifteen years old, has earn
ed S6,OlS.25, and saved nearly four
thousand dollars of the amount.
1t is estimated that America, when
her productive power is fully developed,
will be able to feed four times as many
persons as there are now On the face OF
the earth.
Persons and papers oiinfuence through.
out the State are urging Gov. Geary TO
pardon DIR. Scheppe, who has so long oc
cupIed cell within the strong walls OF
Cumberland county prison.
Brigham Young, it is said, sadly brok-
en- down and doubtful of the future of his
people, has returned to Salt Lake City
dlstrustful of any permanent peace with
the antipolygamous people of the Ter.
ritory.
AT Trenton, n. j., on Saturday night.
a Mrs. Chauncey, while digused as man
shot, and it is thought fatally wounded q
MIR j. Snowell, for what she regarded as
a slight, he having accompanied another
person to ball in her stead.
Governor Geary has appointed Adam
Z. Reinoehl, ex- Representative from Ian
caster county, as Deputy Secretary of the
Commonwealth, in place of James NJ
Weakley, resigned. The appointment
takes effect on January 1st.
A suow bird match was shot at Toronto
last Saturday, between Captain Bogardus.
The champion shot of the United States
and James Ward, of Toronto. Ward
shot sixtysix birds out of one hundred
and Bosardus sixty FIVE.
Tobacco sales in Windsor and East
Hartford, Conn, recently have brought
arge prices. One lot of wrappers sold
Tor fifty five cents, another at fifty seven.
aud third for sixty. The tobacco crop
vas much injured last year by the drv
weather. and hence the high range Of
prices.
A lady's husband being away from
home died while absent. One of the
,elghbors, being requested to inform her
'f her husbands DEATH found her at din.
ler, and, when he informed her of the
ieath, she requested the neighbor to wait
lntll she had finished her dinner, when
ne would hear some bawling
"W hat are you about, my dear 2" said
MS grandmother to little boy, who was
ding abuot the room, and casting fur.
i've glances at gentleman who was pay.
ng visit. 81 am trying, grandma, to
teal papa's hat out of the room without
citing the gentleman see it, for papa
wants him to think he's out"