The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-10-24


second time this year.
The Good Tenpars of Kentucky number
$500.
A poplar tree in Muhlenburg county
XIV. measures 4S feet in circum ference
The fruit crop of Kansas for this sea.
son is estimated to be worth $1,000, 900.
The corn crop Of the country is mil
lard and half Cor 500 900, ,000) bush
els
Coraine county, Ohio. produced and
exported last year ten million pounds OF
cheese.
The failure of Caldwell, Walker & Co.,
brokers, of New York, was announced on
Saturday.
BY the careless use of kerosene two
dwellings were destroyed by fire in Brook
lyu, Sunday.
A smart girl at Niles, Mich, made 800
barrels in week, lately, besides going to
the fair.
A Vineland, n j., sweet potato mea
sured 81 inches in length and 10 inches
in circumference.
When Kansas Indian dies, his friends
choke pony to death and bury it with
the deceased
The white elepant captured in Siam
takes rank after the Queen, the heirs ap
parent ranking after the elephant.
Two young men, Townsend and Force,
fought a duel, at Atlanta, Georgia, on
Friday evening, with shot guns. Town
send was seriously wounded.
General Lucius Fairchild, ex Governor
of Wisconsin, has been appointed consul
to Liverpool, vice Dudley, resigned, ai.
ter twelve years service.
To clear we'll of carbonic acid gas.
Lower red hot iron 10 the water, so as
to produce little steam. The vapor
lnstantly absorbs the gas.
A Washington boy that defes classified
tiou has white neck and body, mulat
to face and black ears, all surmounted
with crown of pure white nappy wool.
Barney Wood was sentenced, in Wash
ington, on Saturday, to be hanged for the
murder Of Samuel Cheeseman. The exc.
cution will take place on the 9th Of
November next.
A Missouri newspaper claims that the
hogs of that State are so fat that in or
der to find out where their heads are it is
necessary to make them squeal, and then
judge by the sound.
A one armed man in Salem, lately ap
piled for divorce on the grounds that
the hand he had given his wife in mar.
riage, was lost, and that the contract was
therefore void
In South Bend, Ind, they use small
packages of quiuine for change. As
everybody takes it, they look upon it the
same as legal tender, and it passes of
without difficulty.
Secretary Robson left Washington,
last, night for New Jersey, where he will
remain until after the Presidential cleo
ton. He is engaged to speak every
night for the next two weeks.
A father living in Titusville, who has
two or three very courtable girls, placed
a notice on his front door the other night
which read "Shut down for thirty days
No stove in the parlor, and but one
lamp"
The following were the balances in the
Treasury at the close of business Satur-
day; Currency, s4.936. 900 70; coin.
SIC ,90T ,635 05, including S23. .451 500
of coin certificates special deposit of lie
gal tenders held for redemption of certi-
fcates of deposit, 500, 2,4s5, 900
The horse epidemic which has for some
time past been running through Canada
has now crossed the boundary, and is at
tacking our own cities. Some DAYS since
it appeared in Buffalo, and now the It'd
ings come that it has broken out also
among the horses of Rochester.
One very cold night, jolly old fellow,
who had partaken rather too freely of
flip at tavern, started for home in a
sleigh, and on the way was upset, and
left by the side of the road A boy pass
ing the same way short time after, dis.
covered the old fellow. holding his feet
up to the moon, calculating to some invisi-
BILE person named John "Pile on the
wood it's laundering cold fire |"
1t is understood that the new indict
ment against Tweed covers a new charge
a witness having been found who could
swear positively to the division of money
between Ipgersoll and Tweed 1t is stat
ed that it will be difficult for Tweed to
obtain bail now, and that his apprehen-
sion will be strong motive for him to re.