The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-12-12
MISCELLANE EO US.

Maine on Monday night.
Destructive gales occurred on the lakes
on Monday night.
The police of Philadelphia made 3O35
arrests during the month of November.
Gen. Grants official popular majority
for President is 756,026.
Sun flowers are raised for fuel in Min
nesota.
Fernando Wood is said to be worth
slO,000,O00.
Fifty five locomotives we're built in
Philadelphia last mouth.
There are 100000 worth of new
church buildings in New York city.
August Belmont clears about $1,000
900 year.
Over 1000 young American girls are
now at school in France aud Italy.
Two gentlemen of Lowell, aged Z and
76, married youthful brides last week.
One hundred and twenty one patents
have been granted for windmills in this
country since 1851.
A young lady of 81 years died in Troy
the other day who had never walked or
spoken.
James McElhaney has been sentenced
to be hanged on the 2lst of February.
for the murder OF his wife at Boston.
Charles johnson, colorcd was executed
at Washington, on Tuesday for the mur
der of his wife.
Eighteen years ago the place where
Omaha, Nebraska, stands, was piece of
untouched prairie. 1t now contains 90.
900 inhabitants.
A lake has been discovered in the
Cascade mountains, Oregon, completely
hemmed in by wall of rock 1000 feet
high.
Nine millions of wooden tobacco pipes
are annually made in this country The
root of this country The root Of the
briar ivy is the substance generally used
TIE war with the Indians in Oregon
continues, and numbers of troops are
marching against them. They have been
slaughtering the whites on the Lost riv-
| er.
| Hon. A. III Stephens can walk only
with the aid of crutches and servant.
and dosen't leave the house except on
pleasant days.
VIM. NJ Graham, President of the
| Waikiki National Bank. of Mddetown.
n Y, has been held in $40, 500 bail. on
the charge of defrauding the bank by
false entries.
Two convicts escaped from the Wes
tern Penitentiary in Allegheny City last
week by tunnelipg under the cellar of
the building and outer wall to the street,
distance of forty feet.
Laboring men who are focking to Bos
ton from all quarters are making a mis-
take. There is not enough work for the
laborers who were in the city before the
fire.
In two weeks of last month Key West
Fla, shipped $4,000 worth of cigars
and sponges which the Dispatch of that
place thinks is pretty good for village
of seven thousands Inhabitants.
Henry Rogers was hanged in the yard
of the Kings County Jail, Brooklyn, on
Friday morning, for the murder of Officer
Donohue. Just before the drop fell he
faiuied and dropped into the arms of the
attending priests.
Vessels arriving at New York during
the past twenty four hours report very
severe weather at sea. The cold was in
tense this side of the Gulf stream. and
and more than one vessel came in heavily
incrusted with ice.
Barney Woods was hanged in the yard
of the District Jail, at Washington, at
seventeen minutes past twelve o'clock, on
Friday afternoon, Tor the murder of Sam
uel A. CheesemaD, of New York, on the
18th Of August.
A young man who went West from
Danbury, Conn, few months ago has
sent only one letter home. 1t came Fri
day. 1t said /: "Send NE a wig" And
his fond parents don't know whether he
is scalped or married.
The St. Louis Globe says: The lazy
man Of this establishment snores oc
casioually. He took nap in the press
room day before yesterday, and the neigh
bors rushud in to know why the pres:
was working on Sunday.
"P-otat.oes |" cried darkey ped
dler in Richmond, "Hush dat racked you
distract the whole neishborhood," came
you kin hear, kin you ?" "Hear you
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