The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-03-06

Y is growing rapidly, the sales last year
being in excess of 81 600 600.
Jacob II. Viking, a well-known
clothier of Easton, died on Tuesday night
of last week.
San Diego. Cal is luxuriating on green
peas and ripe tomatoes, while Santa Bar
bara prides itself on its fine strawberries
At New York the sub treasurer of the
United States will purchase $4,000 600
in bonds this month, and will sell S6,0O0,
900 of bullion.
Grasshoppers were discovered in
Weybridge. VT. last week, as lively and
playful as ever. The Middlebury Register
thinks it is justified in recommending
them as a hardy kind for general culture
Fashionable milliners tell US that the
spring bonnet will be a modification OF
he style now in vogue, and that long
trailing vines are to be the most con
>picuous trimming.
Alexander ii. Stephens returns to pub
lie life. having been elected TO Congress
IN the 9th ult., to represent the Eighth
District of Georgia. A small vote was
polled, and there was no opposing candi
date.
The San Diego (Cal) Foundry, the
first establi>he there, recently began
work. The melting capacity of the fur
mace is 5000 pounds. and the fuel used
is Pennsylvania coal, costing there S25
(gOld) per tun.
Peace has been made with the Modor
Indians upon the following terms :
They must surrender to the military
authority, and be removed to a reserva
ZION in Arizona, Indian Territory, or
Southern California"
In the United States District Court at
Trenton last Thursday. Gerry i Taylor.
aud a solicitor for pensions, was sentenced
TO six months imprisonment and 500 Gne
for taking illegal ices from an applicant
tor a pension.
Twenty FIVE men holding positions of
| Night Inspectors. Weighers, &c, In the
Philadelphia Custom House were remov-
ed on Friday, in accordance with orders
received from Washington. The reduc
rion is intended to reduce expenses in
that department of the Government.
We like pluck. A Sheriff in Florida
was requested to resign. lie wrote back:
Your communication is received, stat
ing that my resignation will meet the ap
prevail of the Governor 1t does not meet
mine" And so. like some bigger men
who have talked Of resisning, he did ut.
There is a man in Philadelphia who be
lengs to 343 different secret lodges. circles.
etc, aud knows 1877 signs, grips, AMI
pass words. When he walks along the
street he acts as if he had the St. Vitus
dance, being continually on the wink or
making a sign to a brother. He says his
memory is such hat nothing but death
can make him lose his grip.
The snow 10 the streets of Mauch
Chunk is from four to FIVE feet deep. 1t
is packed down in the middle of the
streets, and the pavemeDts being cleared
of. we have the curious spectacle of
teams running, at some points almost on
a level with the heads of the pedestrians
on the sidewalk. Great is the ''Switzer
land of America"
The Halifax Express is accountable
for a story OF a prococlous horse, who,
having learned to love liquor during the
eplzootic treatment, put his head into a
sleigh near which he was hitched the
other day. took the crok out of a whisky
bottle. upset the bottle, and then Tapped
up the liquor from the bottom of the
sleigh
Advices from Arizona to February Is
state that Lieutenant Michler, of the
Fifth Cavalry. fought the Apaches Jan
nary %, at Tonic creek killing seventeen
warriors. One soldier, named George
Hooker, was killed. On the 18Th of Jan
nary Captain Price had a fight near
Verde. killing five Apaches. General
Crook arrived at headquarters February
IL. having been absent three months.
They had what they call an awkward
man on a Jury down in Maine, the other
day. 1t seems the case involved a claim
for building a cellar. and the number of
percbes of stone used were specified But
this awkward man as it CHANGED. knew
something by experience of building stone
walls, and this little item was not quite
clear to hlm So when the Jury went out
he took his pencil and quietly ciphered a
little while at the table, and then, in the
most matter Of fact way, told his fellow
jurors that, as he made it, there was
enough stone put into those cellar walls
to bill the cellar completely up and have
some three or tour perch of stone left, and
he was puzzled TO know where they put
their potatoes and garden sass.