The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-10-09
NO.22.


Chester expects to build eighty new
houses this fall, some of which are not
yet begun.
Moonlight City" is the title given the
latest village in the oil region. It is 10.
Gated near Turkey City.
An Indiana farmer has sold 100 900
watermelons this season, and still Insists
that he ought not to be hung
Burglars are busy in Elizabeth, N. J.,
and the vicinity, two stores having been
robbed there within the past week.
There are four tribes of Indians remain
ing in Delaware, aud the aggregate num-
Der OF the four is only sixteen persons.
Cambria county boasts of farmer who
has realized from his farm of l25 acres
$1,000 per year, clear of'expenses, for the
20 years.
The amount paid to the heirs Of Will
liam Ii. Seward for the copyright of tho
first six mouths of his Travels Round
the World" was SIl ,464
a young woman 10 Omaha is mentioned
who committed suicide by cramming all
her lovers letters into her tbroat. Not
very sage stuffiug for goose.
VinclaDd has shipped over the New
Jersey Southern railroad this season 2I9,-
496 pounds of grapes, and over the West
jersey road 77,4S4 pounds.
An Illinois dentist recently attempted
to pull tooth for man aud brought ou.
part of minnie ball from his jaw, which,
has lain there for nine years.
At the recent exhibition OF tie Cum.
berlaud County Agricultural Society. ths
receipts at the gates amounted to S23lS,-
so, and from all sources, s2S15S0
Robert w. Barnard, of Scranton, a son
of the late Col r. w. Barnard. of the
United States army, was lost overheard
from vessel at sea, while on voyage
to China.
A grey eagle, weighing eighteen
pounds, was recently caught in Pike
county, Pa. 1t was taken without injury
10 large steel trap. the jaws of which
had been wrapped with cloth.
A Scranton paper, in giving an noeosns
of shooting afray, says the wounded.
man is expected to recover, as the pistol
ball lodged in his dinner pail. One OF
Erins own must have written that item.
The Hollidaysburg Standard relates
circumstance wherein six persons lost
their lives by drinking from a cup which
had been used by person who died FROM
diptheria.
Water is now worth FIVE cents barrel
in Texas. Should the Democratic party
carry the election, there is every reason
to suppose that it will soon cease TO be
quoted at all.
A Lancaster man named Bender at
tempted to commit suicide because his
wife refused to kiss him He had been
on a protracted "bender," and was drunk
at the time.
The delinquent tax collectors in Scran-
ton, who hold about $4,000 of the city's
money, are to be made to disgorge The
present mayor is among the number, and
owes the city $780,.
A Bedford county liquor seller was con-
victed on three indictments at the last
term of the county court. He pays fiue
of $3.50, with the added privilege of six.
ty days Imprisonment.
A young man named Turnbull, for
many years a sailor and adyenturer has
sued for valuable coal lands in Luzerne
county, amounting to 1000 acres, and
said to be worth Si0,000,0O0.
The largest load of lumber ever ship
ped from Williamsport iu one boat left
that @ty ou\Mouday, the 22l inst, for
Middletown. 1t contained l07,776 feet
(inch boards) and 5000 laths
Thirty five hundred houses were swept
away by late inuDdation of the province
of Agra, iu India. No estimates have
vet been made as to the loss of life. Of
course the suffering Of the people will be
terrible.
The Commercial and Financial
Chronicle, in its annual review of the
year, places the cotton crop at 1888, ,4O8
bales, against 2,974 ,35l for the year end.
ing August 81, 1872 The average
weight of the cotton bales is AGA pound
President Grant, and Gems. Sherman,
Sheridan, and Hooker had narrow es-
cape from being run over by coal train
at Pittsburgh, week before last. The
COW catcher of the engine grazed the hind
wheels of the carriage in which they were
crossing the track.
General Mcclellan has just been ap-
pointed general manager of 8 company
lately established in New York, which is
called the United Rolln. Stock Com
pany. and might be denominated a rail-
way livery establishment. II builds and
buys, aud keeps ready to loan, such roll
ling stock as railway companies may need,
such as locomotives, passenger ears, bag
gage cars, freight cars, coal cars, &c. A
railway company just established, which
has not the means to stock its road pro-
perly, may have locomotives aud cars to
any extent from this novel corporation,