The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-11-20
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Pilot Temple" the well known trot.
ting stallion, was sold in ST. Louis ON
Saturday for $500.
An Ohio soldier. who was prisoner in
Libby for year, is now foreman OF to-
bacco factory in the building.
General Ryan and three other Cuban
insurgents, captured on the steamer
VUginius, have been shot by the
Spaniards.
Death is as near to the young as the
old. Here is all the difference death
stands behind the young mans back, but
before the old man s face
An American aronaut, named Wells.
is announced for boloou trip from
Vienna to the United States by way Of
Asia aud the Pacific Ocean.
In Ceylon, the marriage ceremony is
performed by tying the couple together
by the thumbs. Iu this country they are
usually put together by the ears.
The cost AID equipments Of the Le-
high Valley railroad is given at $780,
425 ,49.-The nat earnings of the liae,
last year amounted to S2,ll3, ,262 80.
There is a family of three in Polk
county. Iowa, against whom thirty indict-
ments are pending, and two fTundred and
seventeen witnesses are ready to testify.
That bed is not long enough for me-
said gruf Englishman "Iudeed it is,
sir" said the Irish waiter. There will
be tgo more feet added to it after YOU get
in"
Prince Bismark has recommended that
the Invitation from the United States.
Government TO participate in the Cen
tenaial celebration be accepted.
Some of the manufacturing establish
ments of New Castle and Sharon have
issued scrip, in order to carry them.
through until currency becomes more
plentiful.
A sharp boy in Cincinnati was sent
after kerosene, but he spent the money.
filled the can with water, and his father
went over aud pounded the grocer for.
swindling him.
4 Chinese firm has located ip Pitts
burg. In addition to dealing in celestial
workmanship the firm will lssart Laundry
at which work will be- 2oEe at fifteen
cents per dozen.
Sarah Harding, colored; aged ninety
eight, aud the mother of twenty children,
has been sent to the Berks county poor
house, her son, local preacher, refusing
longer to support her.
A com munity of women is to be estab-
lished at Woburn, near Boston, from
which men are to be risor6usiy excluded.
1t is to be supported By various industries.
carried on by its msmbers.
An uncle left in his will eleven silver
spoons to his Dephew. adding, IF have
not left him the dozen. he knows the
reason" The fact was the nephew had
some time before stolen it.
Japan does nothing by halves Ata
recent execution of three criminals there,
the victims were beheaded, the skulls
battered in, their brains scooped out. and
their hearts cut out None of them
survived this treatment
a Dakota Sheriff attached show the
other day. and while tacking up sale
notice" on the elephants hind quarters,
which the official took for small barn,
the animal swung his tail around. There
were eight hacks at the funeral.
1t was Portland fellow who, after com
ing to railroad crossing the other day,
and reading the sigu-''Look out for the
locomtive," climbed to the top. and oa
gazing up the track, wanted to know
wherein thunder the old thing was p
An Irishman, writing from Philadel-
phia the other day to bis friend in the Old
Country, concludes a letter thus: If
Iver its me good fortune to live till dy
and God nose whether it is SOIL
visit ould Ireland afore | lave Philamade-
lify"
4 despatch from MoDongahela City,
Pa, says that on Friday evening a young
man, named Charles Clemens, stabbed his
father iu the abdomen with butchers
knife. and then thrust the weapon into
bis own side. The young man died
instantly, and his fathers wounds are
believed to be fatal
There is at present in course of con-
structiou at Pittsburgh, Penusylvania, a
pair of pumping engines said TO be the
largest in the world. The following are
the weights aud dimensions of certain
parts: crauks, nine tons shaft, twenty
four tons four sections of the two valve
cham bers, one hundred and twenty tous
Ay wheel, seventy tons four plungers,
nearly four hundred tons cylinder, six
ty four iaches In diameter stroke, four
teen feet; diameter OF plungers, sixty in
ches. with leogth of stroke of eleven
ieet. These engines are designed to raise
water into the Highland Avenue Re-
servoir, in the city OF Pittsburgh. which
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