The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-11-14
MISCELL A N E O u S.
Last year the Methodists baptized 120,
900 persons.

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Squirrels are swarming in the Cumber
land valley.
Apples are selling in the northern part
of the State for dollar barrel.
The mercantile marine of the whole
world mum bcrs over 81 900 vessels.
English capital to the amount of S3,-
100000 is invested in mining in this
country.
Boston has three churches, respectively
120, 40 and $50 years old, which have
remained unaltered since they were built.
a young man in Danville refuses to
fulfil marriage contract because he has
discovered his gal smokes pipe.
A Republican at Sharon, Pa won on
the election $4,000 in cash, eleven suits
of clothes, and two hundred kegs Of nails
Judge Ingraham, of New York, has
decided that PERSONS watch is neces-
sary article, which cannot be taken by
his creditors.
At Pittsfeld, Mass, recently, man
with child under one arm, and pig
under the other, joined in funeral pro
cession.
When man can't hit the ground with
his hat more than once in nine times, he
is supposed to be attacked with the
"epizootic."
The editor of the Salisbury Conn }
Ne,cs is in luck. One of his admirers
sent him twenty cents to buy a segar
with, besides his subscription.
The practice of selling Chinese women
still prevails in British Columbia. A
good specimen was recently sold at Berker.
vile for 500.
The man who has voted for every Presi-
dent, &c, now lives in Luzerne county,
this State. His name is Matthew Phoenix
and he is 106 years old.
A disease with symptoms similar to
those of the horse disease is prevalent
among the deer in north western Min
nesota, and large numbers are found dead
or dying in the woods.
A dispatch from Washington states
that the Hon. Hamilton Fish will resign
his position of Secretary of State, and
that he will be succeeded by Pennsyl-
vanian.
Three good reasons why it is best to
plant small instead of large trees They
cost less at the nursery, expense of pack
ing and transportation is less, and losing
but few roots, they are more certain to
live.
On Saturday fire in Twenty ighth
street, New York, extending through to
Twenty seventh street, burned Dean S
stair building factory, Brasington's plan
ing mills, Macy's packing box factory
Martins machine shop, Welch's planning
mill, large tenement house, grocery
and a dwelling house. Loss $4,000.
Caroline King, a colored woman, living
near Harrisonburg, Va, has given birth
to seven children within a little over
seventeen months. A pair of twins were
born on April Sd, 1871, another pair on
December 9Th, 1871, and triplets on Sep
tember 9Th, 1872. All were boys.
Mr. Murray Closson, of Gardiner, Me-.
writes in regard to the prevailing horse
distemper, expressing the opinion that
the feeding Of so much corn to horses is
the cause of the trouble, and that the
heat eugendered in the blood by such
food makes the animal keenly suscept
BILE to atmospheric changes.
A young lawyer Of Savannah, Ca, late
ly rode fifteen miles in the cars, walked
three more, rode nineteen miles on horse.
back, examined seven witnesses, argued
and won two cases, wrote deed and re,
turned to his home between the hours of
seven in the morning and half past four
in the afternoon.
A minister once told Wendell Phillips
that if his business in life was to save
the negroes he ought to go south whore
they were and do it. ''That is worth
thinking of" replied Phillips and what
is your business in life ?" ITO save men
from hell, y replied the minister. "Then
90 there and attend to your business, +"
replied Mr.. Phillips.
John Sullivan, proprietor of the Du-
shore hotel, in Dushore, Sullivan county.
planted, at the usual seeding time last
spring, single potato 10 his garden of
ordinary soil. A week or two since he
dug them up, and found that it had pro
duced 544 potatoes, weighing 1876 pounds
or, in other words, just three bushels
and peck.
The following exhibits the condition of
the Order of Knights of Pythias in the