The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-09-10
Burglaries are frequent IN Harrisburg.

Burglaries are frequent IN Harrisburg.
Public dect decrease during August
81, ,626,760 80,
There are 8O0,0o0 more women than
men in England
Gid big knave and little honest men
will worship him.
The Lebanon Rolling Mills have plenty
Of work on hand.
A Harrisburg barber paid Sc 10 for
shaving man on Sunday.
Coal operations have rot been suspended
in the Lehigh region.
! There were thirty-three deaths in Har-
risburg during August.
The public schools of PhHandelphia are
attended by 63,635 pupils,
Apples are selling in the New Castle
market at twenty-five cents per bushel.
The Pottstown Iron Company shipped a
day or two ago, 400 kegs ef nails to Yoko-
hOma: Japan
It Is estimated that over $4,000 trout
were taken out Of the streams about Mil
ford this season.
The debt of the city of Wilkesbarre, as
reported by the Finance Gorarnittce,
amounts to S187 600
Specie shipments to Europe on Satur-
day, $10,000in gold coin and s62,7 ,793 in
silver bars.
Henry Ward Beecher's annual income
as pastor, lecturer, and journalist is S65,-
600, and yet he is not happy.
A scoundrel entered the stable of 4. n.
McCandless, in Butler, on last Saturday
night, and cut off the hind-legs Of valua-
bic horse.
An urchin being rebuked for wearing
out his stockings at the toes, replied that
it couldn't be helped, "Toes wriggled aud
heels didn't"
At Millerstown, recently, fourteen wo-
men attended a dog fight Betting was
spirited, the stakes being oil in lots of from
one hundred to FIVE hundred barrels.
Goldsmith Maid trotted mile in PA
on Mystic Course, Boston, on Wednesday,
of last week, the fastest time on record,
beating her wonderful time of two weeks
ago.
A new game called Granger seven-up"
is announced. Three persons play for a can
of oysters. The first man gets the oysters,
the last the can, and middle man" don't
get anything
At Niblo's, the other evening, when
Catharine Gaunt presented to Father France
a package Of letters with the speech.
'"These will prove my innocence" gallery
god shouted, "Give 'em to Moulton p
A Jersey City lawyer was making a
high-fown speech the other day, telling
about angels tears, weeping willows, and
tomb-stones, when his Honor said econ
fine your remarks to the dog fight"
The Delaware last week was lower than
it has been for several years. Opposite
Trenton it could easily be forded by per-
sons on foot. All the springs and streams
IN this part of the country are in failing
condition
Aaron B. Fryer, Of Pottsgrove town
ship, Montgomery county, has COW that
in two and half years has given birth to
eight calves. The first were triplets. the
second twins, and last week she brought
forth three more into the world.
Hazelton, Luzerne county, with popu
iatlon of seven thousand, has eighty hotels
and saloons where the exhilerating "bev-
erage' is dispensed to thirsty patrons. The
town and county gave large majority for
local option. No prosecutions.
The Glendinning- Pomeroy scandal is
the all absorbing subject in Jersey CITY.
AN indignation meeting has been held at
which strong resolutions against the action
OF Glendinning were passed and requesting
hmm to leave the city. He still protests
his innocence Of the serious charges made
by MISS Pomeroy previous to her death, but
The evidence appears to be against him.