The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-07-16
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MISCELL AN E0 US.

Wilkesbarres assessed valuation isS3,-
357,239
Common swamp cabbage will efectually
eradicate reaches.
These are the days in which green ap-
pies grapple and gripe greedy boys.
A Downingtown man shot thirty ground
hogs and cut three and half cords of wood
in two days.
Cheap transit Excursion tickets to
Europe and return are selling in New York
for thirty-fve dollars.
During the month of june five hundred
and sixty postofices were established and
ninety-eight re-established.
The Scranton Republican says as long
ago as 1775 coal was mined near Pittston,
and used in smiths forges
The annual production of butter in this
country is estimated at 709, ,00O, 900 pounds,
and it is still spreading
The exports of wheat from New York
for June, exceeded those of any month in
the history of the trade.
The July dividends payable. in Boston
will be S9,117 ,340, against $40, 0,O93 in
July, 1878. Not bad showing
The Board of Pardons will not hold
session in July. The next meeting will
be on the first Tuesday in August.
At church fair in South Bethlehem, a
gentlemans gold watch voted for put ST.
$50 90 into the treasury; and lady's
watch, S725 25.
Delaware has raised about seven and a
half million quarts of Strawberries this
season. There is good deal of gold in
this kind of quartz.
William Shanks, of Ashley, Luzerne
county, has departed for unknown climes,
taking with him 81 200, a watch and cloth
ing belonging to other parties
Do you know that the leaves of the com
mon walnut tree placed over doors, win
dows, mantels, or in wreaths or punches
about the house, viii drive flies away +?
There viii be larger catch of mackerel
this season than for the past twenty years.
We shall not hear of the gudgeon catch un-
till the watering place season is over.
The beer trade is gradually increasing
over last year. The women's crusade
ceases, to effect it, except to make it livelier
in the degree in which the crusade dimin-
ishes the whisky business
A Kansas boy earned nice Bible by
committing three hundred verses to me-
mory, and then he traded his Bible for q
shotgun and accidentally shot his aunt in
the leg.
A Philadelphia preacher went all the
way to Scranton for the purpose of leetur-
ing on ''fools' Many of this audience, no
doubt, could have considered his remarks
as entirely too personal
During the past eighteen months, there
h as been expended in new buildings and
in Tidioute, the sum of
S254,000. This is good showing for
that thriving little city.
Davis Eldridge, of East Goshen, Ches-
ter county. has hen which has startled
the scientific world, by laying a double
shelled egg. The white and yellow
al
A case begun under the old Banlzrup5
law, on the petition of single creditor,
has already been brought under the new
law in Philadelphia, by petition and or
der of court to require one-fourth Of the
creditors to join in the application
One Of the queerest establishments in
New York Is place where milk baths can
be had. The milk is warranted pure. and
a bath costs five dollars. The establish
ment is patronized largely by ladies, who
imagine that these baths improtethc health
and beautify the complexion.
The Fulton county Republican Conven,
tion on Saturday elected j. T. Over dele
gate to the State Convention, with instruc-
tions to support General Beath for Secre
tary of Internal affairs, Gen. Jacob NJ.
Campbell for Lieutenant Governor, Judge
Hall for Supreme Judge and General AL
len for Auditor General
Hon. Leonard Myers has accented the
for Congress from the seceders
of the Republican Nominating Convention,
of the Third district, which nominated
Mr.. Harmer. Mr.. Myers in accepting this
claims that majority of the
delegates were elected in his favor. but
that he was ruled out.
Adolphus and Angelina futter into the
drug store, and she says she'll take little
lemon in hers. Then she watches Adolphus.
Adolphus is shrewd cuss He leans over
the counter, and, with wink, says "Pu
take little of that same" He has been
there before, and he gets it, but it costs
him 20 cents glass--Ec,
Young gentlemen, when they take their
"duxies" buggyriding, should pay every
attention possible to their safety and
welfare, We noticed young man last
Sunday that seemed to understand the art
of protecting his lady-love to perfection.
As they passed down Fifth street, she was
doing the driving, while he had both arms
around her and we could tell by the wild