The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-01-01

Strange, that, notwithstanding so many
concerns are going into liquidation, the
gin mills are all running on full time
a chicken with four wings and four
legs is Pottsville's latest hsus nature.
1t died bornin'," though.
The snow is eight to ten inches deep
at Laurel Ridge, Cambria county aud
deer staying is good.
The mayor Of Allentown has ordered
the arrest of young meu who loaf about
church doors at close Of service.
One hundred aud forty. four new houses
have been erected in Port Jeryis, thus
far, this year
Sltka, the capital of Alaska, is in trou.
bic 1t has public debt of sl50, and
only seventy fve cents in the public fund
The buildings l63 to 169 Canal street
New Orleans, were burned Saturday
Loss estimated at $500
! It is stated that vein of aptbrsc;,.
coal over five feet in thickness has been
discovered ut East Charlestown. Tiops
county.
When man has trouble he takes to
drlhk, but when woman meets with
misfortune she merely goes over 10 Der
mothers and takes tea.
The once popular Danforth House. 81
Plthole City, which cost S28, 900 original
ly, was sold, the other day, for ten
dollar note.
Seven bears were seen together 3,
Frogtown, Cambria county, Pa, a few
days ago. a farmer succeeded in killing
one Of them.
The Grecuville Argus says: Emigra-
lion has turned An emigrant WAGON
passed through town yesterday labeled,
From kanas; Pennsylvania or Bust"
Beautiful! a little girl was recently
asked the following question What Is
sith 7" She replied" Doing Gods will
and asking no questions"
Gov. Osborne, of X ansas, has appointed
Robert Crozer United States Senator 10
fill the vacancy caused By the resignation
OF Senator Caldwell
Over one thousand skilled English aud
French silk operative have returned home
since the cessation Of work at the silk
factories n Paterson, n J.
The Lehish and Susquehanna Railroad
has now double track between Ea.ton
and Bethlehem. In about year the
double track will be completed to Scran-
| ton.
Five thousand miners aud mechanics
in and about Scranton have agreed to
subscribe ten cents per month each
towards memorial frud for the support
of Lackawanna Hospital, in that city.
New York city is "some potatoes" 1t
is estimated that four million bushels of
this indispensable tuber are sold there
every season eat prices fuctuatine from
fifty to seveuty-fve cents per bushel
The oil produced 10 western Pennsyl-
vania tho past year, it is estimated.
would gil canal 25 feet wide at the top,
II at the bottom. Z deep and 20 mile.
long.
The woman who said the latest thing
out was her husband, was answered by
her neighbor, who remarked that her hus-
band always came home carly-berore
any one was up.
An old lady from the country, with six
unmarried daughters, went to Augusta.
Ga, the other day, hunting for The pa.
irons of husbandry. She meant busi-
ness.
In Jefferson township. Berks county.
there is man named John Strauss, who
attends to his farm in person although he
is ninety-one years old He is as vigorous
as a man Of fifty. His descendants have
reached the fifth generation
A gentleman who rather suspected
some one was peeping through the key.
hole of his Office door, Investigated with
| a syringe full of pepper sauce, and went
home to find his wife had been cutting
wood and chip had hit her 10 the eve.
They had miracle up in Maine, last
week. sick mans son went out and
beat about the bush all the afternoon to
get nice, tender partridge for him, and
| just as he reached the house at night.
'iioui ihiut ttufAy
| ing how he should console the old man
for the disappointment, gigantic hawk
flew over and dropped, almost at his feet
| the very partridge he wanted.
Titusville has had an Enach Arden
case. The Courier says. "We gave an
account in yesterdays Courier of one
DIETRICH, who went away from this city
about year ago leaving behind his wife
aud two children. During his absence
his wife married again, aud her frst
husband returned home Tuesday night
last, The parties all met yesterday, and
an agreement was drawn up between the