The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-12-19
MISCELLAN N E O U s.

Hon Ulysses Mercur, the newly elect
ed Judge of the Supreme Court Of this
State, has resigned his seat in Congress.
James L. Orr, of South Carolina, has
been appointed to succeed Curtin as Min
lister to Russia.
The cash value Of farms in Pennsyl
vana as fixed by the last census, was one
thousand millions of dollars.
Mr.. j. NJ. Bellew, who it is said to be
the best reader in England, is coming to
this country.
The Lock Haven boot and shoe maun
factory turns out about $50, 900 worth OF
work per mouth.
The only lcorice factory 10 the United
States is in Newark. 1t turns out eight
tons day, and is the largest establish
ment OF the kind in the world.
A dog with two tails was seen in Taun
ton the other day One belonged to an
OK, and was carried in the mouth of the
canine.
Snow fell at Augusta, Ca. on Tues
day night to the depth of three inches,
the heaviest in that section for many
years.
Luzerne county had the largest nun
Der of patients admitted to the Pennsyl
vania State Lunatic hospital the past year
CD and Dauphin county the next largest
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Every borough. village and township
in Cameron county has railroad passing
through it, and Emporium borough, Drift
wood borough, Gibson township and Ship
pens tow wnship each have two.
The bill abolshiug the office Of Asses
sor of Internal Revenue has passed both
Houses, and by this time is probably a
law. All the business will now be done
by the Collectors.
Both Houses have agreed to resolu
ton of adjournment over the holidays
from the goth of December until the 9th
Of January-thus cutting two weeks out
of the short session.
A Bloomington, Ind, jeweler adver
tises himself by furnishing an item in
which he stated that burglar entered his
shop with intent to steal, but retreated,
screaming fire." terrified by the glare OF
diamond the size of teacup.
A special election is to be held in the
Bradford Congressional district, on the
24th inst. to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Judge Mercur The
person elected will have short term, as
he will 60 out on the fourth of March.
Mr. VIM Finn. of Green county, KY,
is one hundred and seven years old. He
has been engaged in the business of max
ing wooden bowls for perhaps IS years,
aud eau turn two bowls per day now. He
was born in Virginia.
A resolution was offered in the Board
of Aldermen of New York on Monday
which revealed the fact that the Erie
Railroad Company have been occupying
a whole block in that city since 1865
without paying rent.
At an English funeral the other day
one of the six bearers slipped and fell ;;
the others dropped the coffin and fell upon
the PROSTATE man in such manner as to
infict injuries of which he died in less
than a week.
Stanley will make a sensation when he
lectures in this country, dressed in suit
of clothes made by Ujiji tailor, consist
ing of twine string wound around his
big toe and straw hat cut low in the
corsage.
The chicken disease has turned out to
be the "ripg-around The only instance
on record where it did not prove fatal oc
Cured on dark night, when a verdant
servant girl rapg off a ROSTERS tail, mis-
taking it FOR the head.
a Savannah, Gentleman, having set
steel trap to discover what became Of his
chickens, found his mother in law grie
vously lacerated next morning Since
then the demand for steel traps is some
hing unprecedented in the hardware
trade of Georgia.
This years emigration from the Grand
Duchy of Mecklenbnrg Schwerin to
America is estimated at least 5000, most |
ly the best of the agricultural population,
mandiug ample pecuniary means. A
similar exodus from the Grand Duchy is
not on record.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has offered
reward of $1,000 for information that
will lead to the discovery of the where
abouts of G. Frederick Knorr, a professor
of languages, who disappeared from his
home on the evening of the lst of De
cember, and is supposed to be murdered
On Saturday Judge Cadwallader SEN
fenced one james III Brown to l8 months
Imprisonment 10 the Eastern Penitentiary
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