The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-07-11
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The movement for closing barber shops
on Sunday is general all over the State.
The blackberry crop Of Lancas ter coun
tv will be unprecedentedly large.
From Rondout to Delhi is the only re.
maiuing stage route route in New York
State.
The hair on healthy camel weighs
ten pounds, and is worth hundred dol
lars.
The value of the gold at present in ex-
isteuce in the world is estimated at up
wards of So, s5,00O,OO0,0O0.
Crop reports from southern Europe are
encouraging In France the agriculture
promise is magnificent.
More dwelling houses will be built this
year, in Pennsylvania, than during any
single year for the last ten.
Hail fell near the residence of Daniel
O'Harra's, Ebeusburg, on Sunday week
to to depth of three inches.
The city of Pi,tsburg has over fifteen
hundred established manufactures of vari
Gus kinds.
The largest land sale ever recorded in
Minnesota was one Of $1,000 acres,
which was made the other day.
Sound red cedar is worth seventy-6 FIVE
cents per cubic foot in Florida, delivered
at shipping point.
The owner of the elephant Romeo,
which lately died, paid s42 800 for him
thirty years ago.
The national debt statement shows a
reduction of S2,000,000 for the past
month.
Five of the Indian tribes in Alabama
are civilized, intelligent and pious. They
number $4,000 souls.
The French element is getting SO large
in Lewiston, Maine, that French physi.
clan from Montreal has settled there.
1t is said that during the month of May
last no less than twenty five thousand
bison were killed south of the Kansas
Pacific railroad for their hides alone.
In the United States there are but
twenty eight monitors for coast defense,
Eugland having forty-one and France
sixty-two.
The school directors of White town.
ship, Greene county, have been fued
fifty dollars for refusing to publish their
annual statement, as directed by law.
Russia has an army of 1,l73,8l9 men
which costs her annually $lSl, 100000,
and Germany has l, ,l52, 900 soldiers, cost.
ing her 9O,375,0O0.
A queer antic was cut up by lightning
at Muncy, the other day. 1t shattered a
peach tree, few to wire clothes line,
worked both ways, and struch stable at
one end and house at the other.
An Ohio farmer has imported steam
wagon from England. 1t hauls heavy
loads through fields and woods and over
ordinary roads with great facility, and is
very easily managed.
American credit is better now over the
world than it ever was. The Japanese
hnancers, the most cautious in money
matters, have commenced to deal In FIVE
twenties and greenbacks.
Judge David Davis, who was nominal.
ed by the Labor Reform convention at
Columbus, has written letter declining
the nomination, and retiring from the
canvass.
Important gold discoveries have been
made in the vicinity of Parley's Park
Utah. The shipments of ore from Salt
Lake City last month were 720 400 pounds
of bullion 100000 pounds.
The deaths in Philadelphia for the
week ending July 6, were 76i, an in,
crease over the preceding week of $50, |
and over the same week last year of 1893
The biggest eel of the season was
caught by Fred. Barge, last Monday
night, in Headley's mill pond. 1t meas
ured feet inches in length, ia inches
in circumference, and weighed 81 pounds
-Sulivan Free Press.
A young lady of Port Jervis some time
ago named kitten Dolly Warden. As it
progressed in age and developments she
discovered that it was not that kind of |
cat, so she re christened it Thomas Var.
den.
The New York Herald says that dur
ing the recent term of extreme heat, over
two hundred fatal cases of sunstroke oc
CURED in that city, the whole number Of
persons attacked being nearly 1000.