The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-05-28
The prospects for crop of frn;, -
over Eastern Pennsylvania are evool,. all


Williamsport consumes four tbo,
quarts of milk per day. Mix aua n~a
must be the popular beverage there '''A
The fossilized remains of horse
found In Scranton, at depth of s;r.e ;.e
feet, under the vein of coal.
Hon. Winthrop W. Ketchau has b..
7 appointed and confirmed additional ISu
judge of Luzerne county. -"
Julius D. Shuman, member Of tbo1
gislature, who was shot near Lanca,tar -.
Saturday night, died on Monday. u
Bradford produces more butter tb.
any other county in this State; the vied
. last year being 3,704,70 pounds.
Hirman Green, of Delaware cour.u
swallowed an egg, shell and all or
wager of So, and died in six hours srt.r
= ward.
Mayor Stokley's message gives tn. doh.
of Philadelphia at $5S, S,364.l7l The a.,
J sessed valuation of property is abon,
1856 100000
The South Bethlehem Progress giv.,
notice that it is gathering facts relative n
physicians, not graduates, who are prac,
tcing medicine in the Lehigh VaIIev
, and will soon open crusade agaips,
quacks.
A standing reward of 500 is offered
for the finding of a mosquito 10 Belle.
, fonte. Why don't some speculative gen.
ius rake in that money by bottling up =
= few of the Jersey variety, turning them
loose in Bellefonte and then recapturiug
them?
a Speaking of lady clerks in the depart.
e ments, Washington letter writer SAYS:
d All women about whom there is breath
f OF scandal should be Obliged to walk the
S plank. Women in Office should be like
e Caesars wife-above suspicion" Just
S so: bat how about Caesar
: John Bailey, very wealthy old gen.
q tleman Of Hamburg. who was well known
} as having had a wagon loaded with luu.
, Der standing in one spot On his premise.
fer forty, years, died on the 18th
inst, in his eighty eighth year. His
estate is believed to be worth between
100000 and 100000.
The Connecticut Legislature has elec.
f ted William w. Eaton as United State,
y Senator for the next six years. He sue.
n ceeds Elk Governor William A Bucking
v ham. Eaton is hard shell Democrat
d of the Connecticut pattern-one who does
# not believe that there ever has been, or
ever can be, any improvement on the old
IL y IL II n
D and Pierce. He is none of your Greeley
n men.
q Among the three hundred and twenty.
one deaths in Philadelphia, last week.
e were thirteen who had reached far be.
: yond the allotted span, viz: Tabitha
Smith, aged So Rose English, 80; Jane
r, Vorhees, SO Rebecca Sparks, So Alice
q Millman, SO; Sophia p Salmon, SO;
Edward Staples, SO Joshua Hopes, Sc ;
IS Alice Trainor, Sc Ezra Evans, Sc, John
IT B. Dempsey, 81 Moses Brown, So, and
'f Dorothy Griffith, SO.
= In the case of O'Mara and Irwin. who
were tried and convicted few months
- ago at Montrose, for the murder of the
4 mother and sister Of the former, the Ap.
- pellate Court has affirmed the verdict and
= denied the motion for a new trial 1t now
;, devolves upon the Governor to appoint the
:, day when they shall be hanged. Iti prob
able that Irwin will make a full comics.
. sion of his participation in one of the
e most atrocious murders known in the
annals of crime.
re The tide of immigration, which has
n been at low ebb for many months, is
h now swelling, the number Of foreigners
u. who landed at Castle Garden on Monday
lie being 4,062 The current that has set
es from Italey is so strong that there are
of now thousands of Italian laborers in the
re streets who are anxious to work ten hours
as a day for fifteen shillings. The Irish
I'd population do not relish ompetition with
at such cheap labor, and the recent murder
in IN Chatham square is proof of the grow
ie ing hostility between the two elements.
", Tribune.
re- 1t is rather remarkable that France
of which has but lately come through most
r. expensive and disastrous war ending With
4 an enormous indemnity to her conquerOr',
form Of government, is about to resume
no specie payments. The Bank of France
as is importing millions of gold weekley and
rs is is now about ready to redeem its issues
nd which are the national currency. Why
n. cannot some such thing be done IN this
re country, where we have now had nine
Ks years of peace aud prosperity, after a VIC
,p torious struggle2 1t must be because
.r our rulers are not masters of finance, on'
ar are always seeking for some exPedlent "
To avoid paying debts and to get money
.lv easier than other people There la"
ed one way to keep up public credit, when
is to keep the public promises. And Ina'
sd is about what France is doing
ch The District Stewards of the LehISn
to District of the NJ E. Church met