The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-06-26
MISCELLANE0US s.
There are now 1900 Oranges 10 Iowa.

There are now 1000 Oranges In Iowa.
Seven cents a head is the ruling price
for shearing sheep Id Eastern Oregon.
Erie has twelve hundred new houses
under way.
The whole number of Modocs taken
prisoners is 1876.
Scranton and vicinity CLAIM more mad
dogs than any fve'counties in the state.
A complete set of burglars tools costs
about $1,000.
An editor may not be religious, but he
generally has an umbrella which keeps
lent.
An indianapolis parent has been fined
Sc for giving his minor son a glass of
lager beer.
The epizooty has reached Lewiston
North Idaho, and nearly every horse is
afflicted with it.
Germany can bring into service an army
of nearly two million men, if necessary.
for conquest or defense.
The Boston Globe states that ~"nearIy
100 900 bodies are buried in Greenwood
Cemetery, Vest Philadelphia"
A woman at East Jaffrey. N. H., has
had an exact picture Of a Juniper tree
printed on her leg by a fash of lightning.
A farmer living near Brimfeld, H.,
has ten plows in active operation in his
fields.
Local option in New Castle has led to
a run on the pottery for Little Brown
Jugs"
An old woman in Liverpool, England
recently made a special request that she
might be buried with her spectacles on.
A few minutes devotion at night will
not clear the conscience as a foul trick
done during the day, nor will going to
church on Sunday a tone for wilful sins.
An insane woman in H~ollidaysburg got
all of her teeth pulled out. and told the
dentist to send his bill to General Grant
The dentist got mad.
A %neighboring editor is on the alert
with this information The season fol
farmers to slide off hay-mows on to pich
forks has nearly come"
Capt. James A. McClurg, a constable,
residing near %Stauntou, Va has sudden.
ly become deaf, dumb, and blind, with,
out any apparent cause.
Oregon papers report the crops good
There will be, at a safe calculation, 600.
600 bushels of grain raised in Umpqua
valley alone.
1t is stated that there are twenty seven
steamers in China waters waiting to bring
Chinese to the number of 29, 900 to Cali
~fornia.
The homicidal mania is prevailing in
Virginia, as we'll as elsewhere, seven
murders having been committed in that
State during the last two weeks.
The dog tax in Loudon county, Va,
this year amounted to 1888. 1t pays
for all the sheep Destroyed and leaves
$1,000 for the school fund.
A Detroit female of just twenty five
was married to her fifth husband on Tues
day. All of the gentlemen are alive, and
the first four are doing well.
At Burlington, Iowa, a little girl s
years old walked up and gazed a few
moments on her dead mother, and then
turned away and died almost instantly.
Jeff Davis, ex. President ofthe Southern
Confederacy, was in Bethlehem, Pa re
Gently, visiting his niece, Mrs. Sayre,
widow Of Senator Broadhead.
Seven Indians made a raid into Brown
county. Texas, but were captured, and.
after being washed, seven white men
stood revealed. They were hung out to
dry.
Two boys named Smith went out fish
ing at Delphi, Ind. 1t being quite dark
they used a light, which so confused the
fish that twenty seven bass leaped into
the boat.
MifHin county has just been relieved
OF a black snake thirteen feet long, and
sixteen inches in circumference. a man
named Duffy having killed it and four
rattlesuakes on the same day. Nextl
What kind of cattle do they have out
at GAINESVILLE, Ohio ? A man there adyer.
tises that he wants a woman to wash
iron and milk one or two cows" Wash.
ing may do cows good, but we don't think
like ironing"
Judge Seldom, of Ca~nandaigua, N. Y,
has sentenced Elizabeth Cady Stanton to
pay a fine of one hundred dollars and the
costs of prosecution, for illegal voting last
fall. Her counsel has asked for a new
trial.
Erie has a city library containing four
five hundred volumes. It had
seven hundred paying patrons last year,
and was visited by about forty thousand
persons. The receipts were $2,OI3, and
The expenses S2,428.
A certain gentleman of our acquaintance