The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-08-29
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number over three millions.
There are one hundred thousand Bap
list communicates in North Carolina
There is fine of SIS for shooting part
ridges before the 18th of October next
This years is the largest wheat crop
ever harvested in California.
Pennsylvania produces more honey
than any other State.
The Delaware and Hudson canal com.
pauy are transporting coal at the rate Of
boat every FIVE mintes.
A full glass of water at bed time and
another just after rising, will often relieve
dyspepsia.
The onion crop in the eastern part of
Massachusetts, will be the largest for many
years.
Maginnis, Democrat, has been elected
delegate to Congress from Montana by
464 majority.
Some of the rolling mills about Pitts.
burg have temporarily stopped work in
consequence of the great heat.
More rain fell in Boston in one hour Oh
Thursday afternoon, than during the
thirty one days of August, 1870.
Marcus Kellam, of Paupack, has killed
twenty seven bears in three years, in
Pike County.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad has made
arrangements to ship eighty thousand
head of cattle from Ellsworth this sea
son.
In one day last week four hundred thous
and bushels of grain and forty thousand
barrels of petroleum were shipped from
New York to Liverpool.
Severe thunder and hail storms have
swept over Switzerland this season, caus
ing loss of life in some places. Sweden
bas been visited by similar tempests.
A house at Mabbettsvile, New York,
was struck by lightning Thursday night,
and one man killed and three seriously
injured.
Hon. Thomas j. Speer, member of
Georgia, died at Barnesville, in that State,
last Sunday, aged 55.
Ninety thousand slaves are exported
every year from the eastern coast of
Africa to Persia, Arabia and Madagascar
The United States, in conjunction with
European Governments, are moving to
spuelch this horrid traffic.
The man who some time ago attempted
to assassinate Father Mckee, near Cat
asauqua, for which offence he was await.
ing trial in the Easton Jail, on Thursday
the 10Th, committed suicide by hanging
himself in his cell
An analysis by Prof Chandler, OF
Columbia College, sets at rest the story
that there is anything poisonous in the
ingredients or processes nsed in the pa
per, printing or cumming of postage
stamps.
Attorney General Barlow, of New York
denies the report of the abandonment of
the suits against Sweeney, Tweed aud
others, and they will probably be tried be
fore the close of the year
Chicago is being rapidly reconstructed,
and the class of new business blocks is of
such substantial and palatial character
that there is no doubt the business section
Of the new Chicago will surpass that of
any city of this continent.
During violent thunder storm near
Fort Plain, n. Y, on Sunday night, a
thunderbOlt knocked a horse and buggy,
In which two men were riding, from the |
towpath into the canal, and both were
drowned.
Three hundred dollars we're received
at the Treasury Department on Monday
from person in York, Pa, who states
that, having become u Christian, he re.
turns that amount as due the government
for taxes retained by him during the war.
A couple of Greeley men, on a street
corner in Syracuse, were discussing the
probabilities of the coming Of the comet.
The conversation was closed by one Of
hem with the remark :"Well, let it come;
anything to beat Grant"
To prevent the smoking of lamp,
soak the wick in strong vinegar, and dry
t well before you use it; it will then
burn bright and clear, and amply repay
Iou for the trifing labor
The English sparrows that were i'm
ported two or three years ago, for the
purpose of destroying the worms and in
ects 10 the public squares of Philadel.
'hia, have since migrated to various
,laces, and have become quite plenty in
he neghboring counties of the State.
The other day little boy who had cut
us finger ran up to his mother and cried:
Tie it up, ma tie it up quick, for the
uice is all running out" The same
rchin on one of the late excessively hot I
ays appealed to his mother for help, say.