The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-06-25
NO. 6.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Farmers in Cambria county pay five
cents per hundred for the killing Of potato
bugs
A Missouri Judge has decided that wo-
man is not an old maid until she is thirty
five years old:
Quite a number Of families from Penn
sylvania are about to settle in Sumner
county, Tennessee.
Balm of Thousand Flowers is now the
inviting label on pint bottles Of whisky sold
in Wiillamsport.
A Sunday school teacher being asked
what became of men who deceived their
fellowmen, promptly exclaimed They 90
to Europe.
Forty Turtles and three dozen frogs
made up the sum total of catch made by
couple OF Miffln county men the other
day
Boston's contribution to the sufferers of
Louisiana amounted to $50, ,O0G; Baltimore
sent $25, ,000, and Philadelphia's donation
was $4,000
An old gentleman at Columbia Falls,
Mo, aged SO years, was recently married
the ceremony being performed by his son,
aged G1 years
Nice place, that New York. For more
than year past no less than two liquor
bars have been, and still are, in lively opera
ton in Ludlow street Jail
An imposing new $50, 600 Court House
at Milford, is standing useless, the contrac-
tor, \. D. Brown, refusing to deliver up
the key until the balance of the money is
paid.
A Methodist minister in Lycoming
county, on recent hot Sunday, Travelled
fifteen miles, preached at three different
stations, and realized fifty-fve cents for his
trouble.
a new process of sweating or inlating
the currency is in vogue The notes are
slit lengtnwise, in such a way that ont of
six bills seven are constructed, slightly
narrower than the genuine.
The following Is a correct summary of
South Carolina officials under indictment
County Treasurers, 3 Sherifs, , School
Commissioner, Trial Justice, / !; County
Commissioners, "a
4 new counterfeit 50-cent note has made
its appearance m Boston, and the public is
gravely advised to be on its guard, as it is
impossible to distinguish the false stamp
from the true.
The editor of daily paper, recently
started, pensively remarks when your
pocket book gets empty, and everybody
knows it, you can put all your friends in
it, and it won't bulge out worth d cent.
Michael Lawless, the Saugeriies despe-
RADIO, was Thursday, at Rondout, n Y,
convicted of burglary and assault with in
tent to Kill, and was sentenced to twenty
years for the former and Eve years for the
latter, in Sing Sing.
Andrew Reed, wealthy farmer of Lin
erick township, Montgomery county, while
quarreling with his daughther, Sunday
night, threw tumbler at her head, where
upon she struck him with flat iron and
killed him.
While couple Of women were discus
sing, the other day, the merits of a GER
tain physician, enc Of them asked the other
what kind of a doctor it was Sure, [
dunno, was the reply, but l think It's an
alpaca doctor they cali hilu.
The Waynesburg RepuJ}ic,.7 IA says: We
never had better prospects for q wheat crop
in this county for many year also fine
prospect for all kinds Of frltit, except cher
ries. which seem, from soma cause or other,
to fall short Of previous seasons.
The county Of Lawrence, Tennessee. mas
been governed by Democrats from time I'M
memorial. Yet it seeEIs 90 be almost as
badly tax-ridden as South Carolina The
county paper says There viii be three
hundred tracts of land for sale for taxes
advertised in this journal this month"
What explanation have the purists of the
opposition to make Of this significant fact ?
Conger, who captured Booth, the assas-
sin of President Lincoln, and got twelve
thousand dollars from grateful country,
has been admitted to the practice of law in
Illinois. The reward was of no benefit to
him, since, having invested it in a mort
gage which did not correctly describe the
mortgagor's property, he was, after hav-
ing sunk what little else he had in bootless
litigation, left penniless.
Eminent lawyers are not always the safest
advisers. CHARLES 0'CoNoR, of New
York, who had charge of the prosecu-
tions against Tweed and his family of
thieves, advised that suits to recover the
money stolen by them, be brought against
them in the name of the State. Other at
torneys less eminent than O'CoNoR, ad-
yised that the city and county of New
York should be made the plaintiff in these
cases instead of the State but the eminent
counsellors advice was taken, the State
was made plaintiff, and now the Court of
Appeals has decided that the State had no
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