The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-11-28

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There is not rat or mouse in Athens,
Bradfoad county.
Huntington county has eight lodges Of
Odds Fellows.
There is no liquor sold in the town of
Damascus, Penn.
Giving seventeen hundred pounds of
coal for ton is among "the weighs that
are dark"
A Davenport (Iowa) paper says pota-
toes are worth, "one cigar and drink o 7
whiskey" per bushel in that city.
Utah would afford territory to make a
dozen States as large as the State of New
Hampshire.
In the past three months $4,000 emf.
grants have sailed from Liverpool to
America.
France will pay 100000 week to
Germany, on account Of the war iRdem-
nifty, until next January.
A number of ladies of Williamsport
have started Ladies' Christian Associa-
ton.
Thomas Champ was executed al
Princeton. Ind, on Friday, for the mur
der of j John r. Bilderback.
A lady juror, in Wyoming, was ex-
cused from serving because her baby
would not keep quiet in court.
| Michael Huss, a man who lately at
tempted to kill his wife, hung himself in
the Jail at Easton about week ago.
Mrs. Green, of Shawnee County, Kan,
has been deprived of forty pound en-
cysted tumor She encysted on having
it removed if it killed her.
Several persons have arrived at San
Francisco from the Arizona diamond
fields, one with ruby said to be worth
$50, 600.
Hon. Oliver p. Morton was informally
reelected United States Senator, by the
Legislature of Indiana on Tuesday last, by a
| majority OF nineteen votes.
During the months of July and August
Of the present year, thirty-six persons
were killed by lightning in the Northern
and Eastern States.
An indianapolis clergyman, who dis
covered clear case of kissing during the
evening worship, recently, stopped his
sermon and offered prayer for the oscula-
tors
A new trial of Maria for the assault
). Alderman McMullen of Philadelphia has
been refused. The prisoner has been
sentenced to six years and nine months
Imprisonment and to pay fine or 81 600,
A little school girl in North Carolina
lately encountered black bear, and saved
her life by throwing him her dinner
basket, which kept him employed till she
could get at q safe distance.
Game is very plentiful in the Vest
!. Wisconsin hunters sell bear meat at four
dollars per hundred. To Fort Scott, quails
are drug in the market at any price,
and now form the principal article of diet
of the people there.
A troublesome echo in new court
house at Bloomington, I'll has been still
ed by stretching several small wires across
the room, at different heights The sound
waves are thus broken up, and reverbera-
ton prevented.
An Auburn On. " convict having
} been released after three years service,
sought out the widow of former ac.
quaintance, known before his sentence,
and paid her a small sum of money he
had borrow of her husband while the
} latter and himself were at work together
in Elmira.
!. 1t is hard to find out the truth about
the poultry epidemic. The provision
merchants say there is no truth in the
story, while unintercstcd people say there
is. Between the two the question OF
turkey or no turkey at Thanksgiving is
an absorbing one.
Fifteen miles is long stretch for a
bridge yet that is the length of the one
constructed over the Tensaw and Mobile
rivers, on the Mobile and Montgomery
Railroad. 1t has ten draws. The bridge
itself is of wood, but the supports are iron
cylinders The structure cost 81 500,
600, and has been three years in the
course of construction
1t does not often happen that each OF
two candidates in popular election re,
ceives precisely the same vote. This was
the case in Clinton County, Mo, at the
last election. George w. Osborn and
Moses Shoemaker, candidates for the of
fee of County Surveyor, each received
| 1870 votes. so that the race was a re-
gular neck-and neck affair. It was, of
course, moral impossibility for either
candidate to crow over the other; aud It