The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-06-26
AS a proof of the rapid growth of Car

of taxables in that city now exceeds g,
400 names. This is an increase of more
than a thousand during the past FIVE
years.
A California paper insists that 5000,
gold, is a liberal allowance for the
expenses of a trip from the East to Cali
foruia. and says that it ''includes the cost
of transportation to aud stay at every one
of our great scenic attractions"
Honest collections have made the In
ternal Revenue receipts for the last fiscal
year aggregate SOS, 50T .lI8, which
comes within a comparatively small frac-
ton of the estimates made at the begin
ming of the year.
A young man in Peoria sought to Sc
cure his sweetheart by strategy. so he
took her cut for a boat ride, and thrsa
tened to jump overheard into the lake
if she didn't consent to marry him. But
it did not work. She offered to bet him
a dollar that he daren't dive in.
Thousands of dead pickerel have been
cast up on the shores of Lake Como, 10
Oswego county, New York. The fated
fish are the largest and finest, and what
is also very strange, no other varieties of
fish seem to be affected by the apparent
d%istemper.
A singular epidemic has broken out in
a Kansas town. Every wife in the town
has been attacked by an irresistible
desire to present her husband with a
nice little dressing case, with shaving
materials complete. An attractive young
woman has opened a barber shop in the
village.
The wife of Pli'ip Nixon. fJrmerly of
Phillipsburg, but since living at Port
Morris, N. j on Thursday week became
insane, aud taking her two children, Que
under each arm, jumped from the second
story window to the ground, instantly
killing the youngest child, aged 9 months,
and inAicting fatal injuries upon herself.
One popularity Of the late electric
storms in Southern Iowa was that the
electric current assembled from the earth
as we'll as descended to it. On seveia'
occasions bright flashes of fame, and
even balls of fire, shot suddenly upward
from the earth to greet the lowering
clouds.
The Fredericksburg, Va, Ledger says !:
1.-THE reports from farmers living in the
several counties around town are that the
prospect for a good wheat crop has never
been better. They expect to have this
year the best crop since the war. Corn,
although thrown behindhand in conse
quence of the cold weather we had in
May, is looking finely and is growing
fast.
There is an Irishwoman of gigantic
strength in ST. Paul. One morning she
lifted a barrel of sugar from the ground
into a cart. The next evening she pre-
sented her husband with twins. Two
days after she did the washing for a fam.
lily of ten persons. Not SO fortunate was
a Missouri girl. She washed all day.
made a supper Of twelve hard boiled eggs,
and then danced all night. 1t is men
toned that her funeral procession was
nearly a mile long.
Concerning the hight prices of iron
and its manufacture in England, the
Sheffield Telegraph announces that lead
ing steel houses in that city have received
letters from the United States counter
handing a large number of orders, for
the reason that the goods can be made at
lower prices at home. 1t seems that Penn
s%ylvania is able to under bid England in
a branch of manufacture wherein the
mother country not long ago was with
out a rival.
Probably no reasonable women will
look favorably upon a new foreign inven
ton which a manufacturing firm in Yves
tern Pennsylvania is copying. This is a
bonnet made of spun glass and trimmed
with flowers, feathers, ETC., of the same
material. variously tinted. 1t NAV be
beautiful it may not be expensive ; but,
alas when dusty it can be washed and
made to look as good as new,-aud what
woman wants a bonnet that can be easily
renovated as that!
Last winter Mrs Hattie!Daveuport, wife
of Flower Davenport, of Albion, Erie
county, had a prescntinent that she was
to die and be buried with her then unborn
Nniiu' w Hiiudy IdSt sue was ueIlveredI
of a child which lived but a few hours.
She would not allow the child to be bur.
led, stating that she wished to have it
kept until her own burial. Singularly
she departed her life on Sunday afternoon
at 4 o'clock. The funeral of the mother
and child took place last Tuesday.
1t is an important fact that the Chinese
have recently been recognizing their
army, which now numbers 500, 900 men
armed with Enfield, Remington, and Colt
rifles, and with a full complement of rihed
artillery. 1t is asked, what if, under able
leaders, they should some day swarm be
yond the limits of their own empire and
attack the territories of their ~neighbors ?
They are brave, patient, capable of dis
ciDliue and thera saamc IN 10 o.o-