The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-07-23
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The Allentown CRoa;cie reports iron
shipments brisk at thar place.
There was death from genuine Asiltic
cholera in Brooklyn Friday last
\ Newark y J. drummer was arrested
and fined in Reading for insulting two
ladies'
4 young japanese has arrived in Easiorr
with q view to become student ia La
fayette College.
The district of country in Minnesota 1e-
vastated by grasshopPers Is fifty by one
hundred miles square.
The State Camp Of the Patriotic Order,
Sons of America, meets in Lancaster on
the ilth of August
The arrivals Of produce at New YORK.
thus far this wear, are three times IS much
as those for the entire year 1873
The imports Of silk manufactures into
New York during the month Of June
amounted TO 81 ,202, ,662, against s735.35S
same time last year.
\ Lebanon county boy set fire toa hens
nest in a barn to Kill some Ice He forget
to take the barn away and ii fal Vi i.tim
to his fertility Of expedieuts
Boston is the only town in thc country
where the Fourth has been ce!ebratei
every year. since the peace OF 11S3. under
the auspices Of the municipal authoTitiea
Cherries have been unusually free from
blight and Tot this season, ana throughout
the country the cultivated blackberry and
raspberry bushes hang heavily laden with
green fruit.
Wolves are 50 thick in soma portions Of
Michigan that they come out Of the woods
and stare at people passing by with as much
impudence as a sewing machine or light
ming rod agent.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Chicago Trt6a1e predicts Senator Thur
mans nomination for President bv the
Democrats, and Speaker Biaine's noln,n
ton by the Republicans
\ Lancaster fcur-ycar cid, riewinc the
comet for the first time, and with vivid re
nlembrance OF the Fourth Of Julv fire
works, wanted to know if it was "a rocket
stuck fast in the sky.
1t is proposed at Eerristowr TO rafee It
body Of horsemen, two hundred strong. to.
be mounted on white horses, and dressed
in full Continental uniforms. 10 participate
in the Centennial parade IN Fairmount
Park in 1876
In Chester county two farmers aver that
they have destroyed the potato beetle. which
has appeared In large numbers in that
county, by busting them plentifully with
air-slaked marble lime Should this turn
out TO be really remedy ii viii be an easy
and a safe, one, and show that this lime is
good for something.-G GeTmaatouu Tie
gre1'h.
The Dallas (Texas) Herald records the
story of two young men who, while out
riding, saw pocketbook living in the street,
and they both jumped from tho buggy to
get it. The hurry broke finger OF one
of them, and dislocated the ankle of the
other, and the pocket-book contained moth
ing
4 swindler has been successfully cheat
ing people in some of the country towns in
the interior. He offers for sale FIVE pound
packages Of tea, telling his customers that
it Is better not to disturb the tea, but to.
use from the top Of the package. On
examining it is found that the packages
contain about a pound of tea at the top,
the rest being made up Of wads of paper
The Lancaster Erpress tells this cigar
story: The Hon. A. Herr Smith. for John
Stauffer, Esq. of Lancaster county. Pa
presented TO the President of the United
States, a cigar, the history of which Is rs
follows: In 1852, DR.. Andrew Kaufman,
- / ~. -.-,,,-,- t,,,-l-
in Lancaster, and short time before his
death gave the last of the lot to his nap-
hew, John Stauffer, Es1., Of said county,
with request that he would give 1t to
General Grant. This cigar Is over seven
ty-two years old, and was destined for the
hero of hundred battles
There is a prospect Of considerable trouble
with the Indians ON the plains this summer.
/ General Custer has been sent with his
troops to regulate affairs On the Black Hills,
where the Indians are very. aggressive. In
the Wind River Valley there has been
battle with the Sioux, who attempted to
capture party of soldiers and the Indians
were severely beaten In Southwestern
Kansas the Cheyennes, Camanches and
Kiowas have begun depredatiobs on the
settlers, and the Sixth Cavalry has been
ordered out to drive them back to their
reservations. Fights with the Indians are
of almost daily occurrence.
TIE last number Ok the Shoe and Leather
Reporter gives some interesting statistics
concerning the exports of hides and leather
from the United States during the past six
months; from which it appears that tie
total valnc of the hides exported from the
ports of Philadelphia, New York and Bos-
ton amounted to sl,213,764, which, at the
low average of FIVE dollars per hide, would
give 242,755 hides exported from the
United States during the past six months
The majority of these were domestic hides,
very few dry hides being sent abroad. The
total value of the shinnaents of lcather for