The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-11-12


Pike county hunters have killed =
40 deer so far this season. '' about
The winter grain in some s,...
Northern Chester county is quite veIior. iIra Of
A nineteen-pound pike was c.n.,
the Shenango, last week, by Mr.. Sna DSS,ln IN
of Greenville. 0Iiars
The entire Republican ticket i d.
in Wayne County, included two me,oS eroS'ed
of the Legislature. ''1"eFS
Twenty-one new dwellings, hovo
erected in Mechanicsburg, CumborIsvse91 Gve9
county, this year. '''1nd
The November semi-annuI dividend
the Philadelphia national banks Fuus sbau Of
average of six per cent '" an
Joseph L. Gardner, of Porter,r r,
Pike county, caught 223 eels at that r1As' rI''
few days ago, at one haul. P'''e
A California man has raised six to,. >
cabbages on three acres Of land. and ~, y,
$4,000 gold for the crop. S0'
During thunder storm at Ogdcrslu
Friday morning Alexander Montyov ~,6 -6
struck by lightning and killed. "'S
Where are the hogs and the fattinooo.-
fields Of this country, that we sbGrIJI"
importing lard The other dav Br;,;I
steamer brought from Liverpool five tiarcoa ,,su
Of this commodity.
A man residing in the northern nort;o,
of Cambria county, George Mack by namo .'
is the happy possessor Of a web-footo5
chicken, and another that sports two ss,,
of wings.
The Honesdale Citizen says Attorror
General S. E. Dimmick has brought sn;;t
against 125 corporations throughout tho
Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, for the 70
covery of the bonus on charters.
A German chemist has succeeded N
making frst-rate brandy out Of savdust
What chance will the Temperance move.
ment have when man can take rim s,u
and 90 out and get drunk with fence
rail
An apple tree near Muncy IS one hun8-
red years old, the trunk of which measures
eleven feet and seven inches in diameter
1t still bears fruit, but Is failing. Thirty
years ago its usual annual yield was sey-
enty bushels.
1t is stated that the smallpox is prevail
ing to an alarming extent in the SchuvI-
kill county mining region, and thqt It Is of
the most malignant type \ number Of
miners have fallen victims to the loatb-
some disease.
The total lumber shipments from Williams
port and points in that vicinity to the end
Iof October, 1873, were 211 ,191 ,0H feet
The decrease for the year as compared with
1873 is 5,Af0,785 feet.
Hard times" are driving many of the
poor people of Danville to stealing. The
farmers in that vicinity complain Of the
frequent &epredations on taeir corn, cab
bage, potatoes, &c, &c.
An old lady in Bridgeport who deeply
Eenjoys this delightful weather, hopes the
EGoverament viii not do anything to offend
the Indians "bccause they might not give
lis any more Indian summer Thoughtful
Eold lady
/ 4 Reading hunter, returned from q
weeks cunning in Bedford county with
one wild turkey, one coon, one large black
duck, two long-bdled suipe, thTee Tooi-
cock, fourteen pheasants, twenty-six wild
pigeons and twenty-eight gray squirrels
The burglars plan Of binding and gag
ging bank cashiers and forcing them to give
sup the keys of the vaults may he easily
frustrated. Many banks are nov furnished
with keys which may be taken apart and
the pieces intrusted at night to several per
sons.
In Oxford, Chester county, On HaIIov-
cen, six boss erected ''dead-iail IN the
middle of the street. On Sunday morn
ing the children of Mr.. Abraham Whitman
were playing about the trap. when 1t teI!,
crushing the life out Of one, a boy Of jvlF-
years.
j, T. Sharpless, of Edgcmont, Ds,ware
county, raised this season two hundred and
sixty-fve bushels of potatoes from two and
fve-eighths acres of ground The Dot was
heavily manured on the sod two years ago,
and afterwards thirty bushels Of lime were
applied to the acre
The rats of Holyoke, Mas, are inordi-
nately large, hungry, and audacious, In
one night they ate forty dollars worth OF
shoes in the store of a dealer, and the next
they showed even greater yoracity IN a a
harness shop. Chinese emigration should
be encouraged.