The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-06-18
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MISCELLAN NEO US.

The mills at Apelika, Ala, commenced
the grinding of new wheat on the 29th ult,
And now it is mtimated that Gould is
likel y to come again into possession of the
Erie Railway.
The yellow fever, which appeared last
week in New Orleans, has now broken out
in Pensacola, Florida.
The amount of government revenue de-
rived from termented liquors. during the
past ten years, is $62, ,279,737.
The washing of 400 sheep in Pursely
creek, Green county, caused the death of
thousands of fish in that stream
The Kansas wine crop of last year
amounted to 100000. This year it Will
reach 100000 if nothing happens
There are 172 vessels of different charac-
ter at present in the port of Philadelphia,
loading and unloading.
The Detriot Post has crop returns from
nearly every agricultural county in Michi-
gan and pronounces them quite uniformly
favorable
Eight young men are now in jail at vii
Transport, charged with incendiarism. The
evidence against them is said to be strong
and conclusive.
Cyrus Stark, brother of Hon. J. B.
Stark, was struck by an engine on the
Lehigh Valley railroad, near Caxton, Fri
day last, and killed.
Thomas Walsh, saloon-keeper at St.
Charles, Mo, found his wife talking to one
Scanlon and shot her through the heart.
He then fired at and missed Scanlon.
Sweetness in bulk Ninety-four car
loads of strawberries passed northward
from the Delware Peninsula on the 9th
inst. This is the largest shipment ever
made in one day.
A dispatch from Prescott says Lieuten-
Hooper, on the 27th Of May, had a fight
with Apaches near Tonto Crokus. He
killed four Indians, and captured seven wo-
men and two children.
Samuel P. Knight, Of Southampton,
Bucks county, has cause to be proud of his
dairy of eleven Alderney COWS, from which
he now realizes 10 pounds Of gilt-edged
butter per week, ten pounds to the COW.
A Chicago Jew has subscribed five hun
dred dollars toward Professor Swings new
church This is the first instance in the
history of that city Of a Hebrew placing
himself on record as helping to sustain
Philadelphia has % national banks, with
an aggregate of S16,935, 600 of paid w,
capital, Baltimore, II national banks, with.
S11 ,241 ,9S5 Of paid up capital and Pitts
burg, l6 national banks, with $S,0O0.000
of paid up capital.
Much of the lumber taken down the
river this spring still remains unsoid The.
market seems to be overstocked. Business
in the lumber regions is very much de-
pressed, worse if anything, than at any
time since the panic.
A man in Paterson has been sentenced
to hard labor in the State Prison for one
year for attempting to svindle saloon
Keeper OF so on pretense that he would
prevent the city from prosecuting for keep
my the saloon open Oh Sunday
A woman who recently died near Ban
gor was so anxious lest her body should be
dug up and dissected by the doctors that
she left 500 to pay man for watching her
grave a month after she was buried. The,
watchman is at his post every night
Some profit. OF one hundred and ffty
two English banks, thirty pay 10 per cent,
twelve ID per cent and fourteen 20 per
cent, while eighteen pay more than 20 per
cent, the average for the whole one hun
dred and ffty-two being 13 per cent.
A house on Quality Hill, Elizabeth,
which cost $50, 600 to build, was sold by
the sheriff one day last week for eight
cents-the purchaser of course TO pay off
and assessments The sheriff
remitted the purchase money to
the owner of the house
A thirteen year-old daughter of DENNIS
MALoNEY, of Ulster county, n. Y, went
to picnic last week jumped the rope"
233 times without stopping. She shortly
ltterward died from the effects of the vio-
lent and protracted exercise. There are
many instances of this kind on record.
The value of the fruit crop of California
last year may be estimated in round num-
bers at S2,000,000. From the tenor of
the reports from all portions of the State
the fruit crop of 1874 will exceed that of
last year by about fifty per cent, and as
the largely Increased demand for packing
will keep up the price, its value may be
estimated fairly at S3,000,000.
The Lancaster E.epress says; I.ancas-
ter should be called the City of Churches"
With population of less than twenty-five
she has twenty eight places of
public worship, divided as follows Lu-
theran, five Reformed, four including
the College Chapel Episcopal, three;
three Methodist, three Baptist,
two Presbyterian, two Evangelical Al
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