The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-12-05
MISCELLA A N E O U S.
Decrease of the public debt last month
81, 1929.

Brooklyn had thirty three fires last
month. Loss, S1172,945.
The Crescent -four mills, at Oswego,
New York, were destroyed by fire on
Sundy. Loss, $4,000.
It is estimated that 100000 of hogs
will be packed this year in the United
States.
There are ten thousand male and five
thousand female convicts in the French
prisons.
The profits of the "bulls" in the North
western corner are estimated in New York
at from five to eight millions Of dollars.
In Iowa a man advertised his wife as
having left his bed and board, and them
applied TO her for the loan of 81 SO to
pay for the advertisement.
Associate Justice Nelson, of the
Supreme Court Of the United States, re.
signed on Monday, and the President ap
pointed Hon Ward Hunt, of New York,
as his successor.
Mrs. Grant. of Oregon, wife Mr.. Jack
Grant, late Representative from Polk
county, in the Oregon Legislature, shot
aud trapped 35S squirrels, last year.
Hugh Mara was last week sentenced
to six years and nine months in the peni
tentiary (uness sooner pardoned again)
for shooting with attempt to kill Alder
man Billy McMullin, in Philadelphia.
Attorney General Williams decides
that postmasters have no right to break
the seals of any letters addressed to others
than themselves, no matter whether the
missives contain obscene, scandalous or
other criminal matter or not
Five boys have been arrested along the
Erie road, charged with killing the switch
man found dead at Port Jervis recently
! One of the lads, who was captured in
Jersey City, only yielded after six shots
had been fired at him from revolver.
A man in Nashville, Tenn much re
duced in circumstances, recently found
on turning over some neglected papers
in bureau drawer, bank certificate OF
deposit for Sl376, paid iu the days Of his
prosperity, and since forgotten.
Indianapolis boasts ola leading con
tractor who can neither read nor write
and who does not know one figure from
another, yet can accurately estimate the
nun Der of bricks for wall, or shingles
for roof, of given dimensions, and the
cost of construction
On Sunday of the Boston fire a gentle
man, spending the day at bingham, fiji
teen miles from the scene, picked up some
burned papers which dropped at his feet
and, to his great surprise, found them to
be PORTIONS Of some bills he himself had
fled away in his counting room the Satur-
day previous,
More champagne wine is made in the
State of New York and sold for genuine
than is produced in all the famons district
of France, from whence it derives its
name. This shows what American in
dustry can do when protected by proper
legislation.
Mrs. WoOdhull and Tennie G. Claffln
were baied at New York on Tuesday, in
the sum Of $4,000 each, before Com
missioner Shields. They were then bailed
before Justice Fowler in $4,000 each in
the criminal suit brought by Mr. Challis.
and in $4,000 each in his civil suit against
them.
number of letters have recently been
received at the dead letter Office from var
ious postmasters, who were unable to de.
liver them on account of not being pro
perly addressed with the name of the
county. The department requests that
counties be put on all addresses.
a process has been patented in Eng
land for completely removing the hair
from hide or skin, and transferring it,
exactly as it left the hide or skin. to a
piece of muslin or other substance" OF
course. there will be no difficulty in ap
plying it to bare human heads.
There is in Brooklyn lady who in
less than four years has received from the
government, letters patent for as many as
four different Inventions a mosquito
canopy, folding chair, plan for heat
ing cars without fire, and Improvement
IN spark arresters.
a farmer in Chester county being call
ed upon to officiate at a wedding few
Gays ago, and finding his horse unfit to
travel on account of the prevailing dis
ease, had his oxen brought up properly
curried, the yoke cleaned aud the ami
mails hitched to his best driving carriage
After getting his ladies in, with wohaw.
Ned, a son Of Africa, took the whip and
started his steam, which if not fast was
strong, and reached the appointed place
in good season, creating quite sensation
The number of soldiers orphans un
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