The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-11-06
The fields of wheat in middye .r4 =.


900 workmen idle in that city.
The mills in Lock Haven, except Perc,
Whites, have all been shut down.
Eighty six employees were DISCHARGED
from the Remove railroad shops last week
The Himrod furnaces, at Younes,owr
o., have blown out TO wait for bette,
iron market.
Iu two hours Montgomery man sbo,
twenty eight muskrats during the hiyh
water last week.
President Grant offers free pardon ~
all deser,ers from the U. S. army, who
return to their duty by Jan. /, 1874.
The Episcopal church at Schuylkin
Haven was entered 90 recent Saturday
night, and the carpet stolen from the
floor.
Pottstown bnasts of calf. 80 days old
that weighs 100 pounds. The animal i,
pure white, without spot of any color.
Forty three years ago there were TWEEN.
ty-three miles of railroad in the United
States, and DOW there are about $500
miles.
The dead body OF horse thief, uamel
Thomas Box. was found hanged in the
woods pear Virginia City, Cedar county
Mo.
Application was made at the Count;
Court on Thursday for the incorporation
of the Odd Fellows Hall aud Cemetery
Association Of Scranton.
There is r1an IN Bloomington, III
who has lived with his presses. vii,
sixty niue years whJch is remarkah4s
thing in Illinois.
An exchange says: when quIniue
gives you buzziUg in the head, stop
taking it." The same rewark will appIy
to apple jack.
Our little two year old, not satisfied
with dolly warden. Grsrian bend ani
hustle. now wants Il redinSote Eeriy
he age is progressive.
The cditer Of Nevada uewspaTcr
gives notice that he cannot lie britci
with fve-cent cigar to write "a 6ve dyL
lar puff.
There are dull times at p assaic. n j.
The wire mill has suspended, the Watson
bleachcrv has clo.ed aud the Steam
| Engine Works have reduced their force
| 1t is said that a bar OF iron worth five
/ dollars is worth, when manufactured inm
horse shoes, $40 80 table knives, $3.50 +;
buttons and buckles, St,035 springs Of
watches, $3.50 900
Among the relics of olfeu days dis.
covered in Pennsylvania. to he added to
the Centennial museum. are Il plough
uade entirely Of wood. and composing
stick used in Fraukllu's printing Office
There are 327 Councils of the Order Of
American Mechanics in this State, cou
prising 43 .35T members The total re
ceipts last year were $lG3.75S 81, ani
the expenses S6S $50 23 Total balance
in the treasures. S2S3 1913.
The local reporter of the Harrisburg
Patriot has turned surgeon, and butrhri
his first case, if the following, taken from
his own columns is reliable: "Thouas
Barricks. wh">e legs we cut Of oH TIE
Pennsylvania Railroad On Monday, las
>iuce died "
\ Kentucky farmer has a saddle mae
which wa taken frum him by suu.
Soliier< during The war. and was gos
nine years aud nine months. to The rel
day, when she aston!shei the whole
family and peighborhooi by returnin,
home by herself and of her Own accord
The Nashua On. II ) Telegraph say
The manufacturers who have recent.y
been engaged in The manufacture of sew.
ing machines in Nashua affirm that th'
actual C 'st of the best $50 machines iss
little less than Sl3. The way people have
been swiudled is about the same as rob-,
berry"
A letter writer at YoungSville, War
rem county. says: this morning gatbersl
and eat some fresh, black raspberr's'
from bushes OF this season growth ThayI
were fully developed, and hung in large
clusters The old bushes from whiaI
these sprouts grew bore good crop n
season, thus making double crop Of The
luscious fruit.
| 1t appears to be the set purpose 0! M
Imperial Government of Germauy 10 pre-
vent, as far as possible, its armSbeaTf:
population from seeking new home %
the United States In aidilon to ls
restrictions placed upon railroads SUE
time ago, as order has now been issed tf
the expulsion of all emigration agents d. (
miclied in Germany 1t will take a.
army almost as large as that which II
tered Paris to prevent the Germaus if'
reaching this country,
The Wilmington (Del.) CommGc
give as the general estimate that at i'a'
thirty per cent. of the meu recently 5a
| ployed in the leather manufactures
Wilmington have been discharged NJ,
OF the firms are shntting down on
manufacture of stock 1t is said tina; 90
OF the largest firms in the city has srs
/ orders that no moIe skins be prepared
manufacture at present Most oi %
firms have large stock on hand wis
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