The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-06-27
MISCELL A NEOUS.

There are fourteen thou sand Vermont.
ers in Illinois
The State debt of Arkansas is fr,o
ton over Sll 100000.
A gentleman of Davenport has 24S
year old clock, in good running order.
Fine strawberries sell in Allentown ..
II cents quart.
The village of Newport, Fla. which
formerly Lad l, 800 Inhabitants, now has
but 25.
There were Al ,975 visitors to the fan.
principal hotels at Niagara Falls .st wear
No account is made of the excursionists
A marble bed has been discovoroa
near Rensselaer,, Ind, said to be of great
value.
A convention is to be held at De,
Moiues on the 1st July, to be attended
only by men over 10 years Of age
One Delaware farmer has shipped tb;s
season about 5000 quarts of Strawberries
from less than an acre of ground.
There are fGty,four savings banks IN
New Hampshire, with Sc, 100 depositors
and having deposits amounting to s24.
700,744.
Thurday last was the hottest of tho
season in New York, the thcrmometer
standing at % at five 2 NJ Friday wa.
the hottest 2lst of June in ten years.
The scarcity OF ships in the navy has
compelled the Secretary to recall num-
ber of vessels on foreign stations, so as to
have them in readiness in event of any
difficulty in Cuban or Spanish waters.
An old coored man aud his wife.
originally from Maryland, who had been
separated, and had not seen each other
for thirty years, met and were re united
last week, in York county, Pa
A Galcsburg, farmer, whose pew rent
was raised to S25, exclaimed Great
Caesar, here's nice state of afairs-the
Gospel going up and pork coming down.
What's to become Of US %
There is great and unsatisfed de-
mand for Iaborers in ali parts Of California.
Harvest hands are wanted in the agricul-
tural counties, workers in the mines and
laborers on the railroads.
One million four hunlred and twenty
thousand cubic feet of gold bearing
cement were thrown down by single
blast of 250 pounds of giant powder at
Dutch Flat, California, on Monday week.
Boston is beginning to IMPORT Japanese
paper clothing. The paper from which
the articles are made is wholly water
proof, is thin and light, an overcoat weigh
ing only two pounds. The goods are cap
able of being washed several times, and
will last a number Of months.
The Mahanoy Gazette says that on
Monday of last week, some horse thieves
visited Mahanoy City, and took horse
from one individual, "a wagon from another,
and ten bags of -four from a third. and
cleared out. This was doing the stealing
business up by wholesale.
Two trains, running at fall spced,
collided on Saturday on the Washington
and Baltimore railroad, near Connellsvillc.
Two conductors were killed, a mail agent
mortally wounded, and seventeen passen-
gers I'M jured, a number Of whom will die.
In 1850 Mrs. franklin Bennett lower
ed pail Of butter into her well at Union
City, Mich, and the string breaking, it
remained there until the well was cleaned
out last week, when it came out fresh and
sweet, twenty two years old. \ good
story, aceH told.
Mr.. Isaac Corbett, of Baltimore. y 4.
years of age, visited company with his
daughter on Sunday afternoon, and while
there pointed out spot where he wished
to be buried. Soon after returning home
he was seized with illness, aud within
three hours of the time of selecting his
grave he was dead.
The chicago Journal says that corn,
which is backward on account Of the pro-
tracted cool and damp weather, is growing
rapidly under the effects of the present
warm weather, and that, on the whole,
the prospects OF the grain crops in the
West have seldom, at this time of the
year, been better than they now are.
Professor Liebig, in lecture on poi.
sons, said that "people were foolish in us
ing arsenic to poison their enemies for
the billionth part of a grain can be traced
in the stomach, and "if the person should
die it remains there forever" Arsenic
is so injurious when used in eoloring ma
terials that he even objects to children
using green covered school books.
A terrible railroad accident occurred
near Beleville, Ontario, Canada, on
Saturday morning. The engine jumped
the track and telescoped the smoking and
second class cars. leaving them on top OF
the engine, where they were exposed to
the escaping steam from the boiler Sixty
five men and women were feariully scald-
ed, and the medical men in attendance