The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-06-18
MIS- G ELL ANEOUS
New wheat has been sold in g.

hi.Ti iii"I he' hours good butter sells :.
Harrisburg for fourteen and fifteen cent, ,,t IN
pound. N'"'S
Vermont this year turns out Il ooo ooo
pounds of maple sugar, worth ten oU'ooO Cent
pound. N'"'S
The bodies of six persons waro -,
from the water around New York citv Non on
Sunday. On
Snow commenced falling at 3f.n+o
Michigan, on Friday morning, and d',,on' oon
tinued for some time. 'On-
The Legislative Journal Of 1874 NIL,
will comprise about 1000 pages will 1,'n nol
the State S2S, 600. W"
A census of Erie, Pa, taken by order %
the municipal government, gives the DO porVl
lation at 26,O37. POpa-
Governor Hartranft was on NTo,a
elected president of the Gettysburg Batti: Bay
field Memorial Association.
1t is said that the ''borer' is r1akinc s,8
havoc among the apple trees in the po;g5
borhood Of Toms River \. J.
Baltimore expects to receive / 600 Ooo
West India pineapples this season. and sill
be unable to supply the demand.
The grand jury of Fayette comfy fopn5
145 indictments at its late sitting the laroest
number ever found in the county.
Virginia is approaching its wheat b,r
vest with an unprecedented yield. There
has not been prospect equal to it since
the war.
There were 6G89 gallons of whisky nro
duced in the month Of May at the tw,
distilleries running in Lebanon countr
representing tax of Sl10230.
England has demanded from Spain com.
pensation for the massacre Of British sub
jects who were on board the Virginius at
the time of her capture.
Fish were never more abundant off tba
coast Of Long Island. At Greenpoint. the
other day, porgies weighing two pounds
each were selling at two for cent
The Chronicle says that all the iron ore
mines on the Iehigh Mountain, in Salisbury.
have been stopped, and the teamsters do not
know what to 10 with their horses.
The Carton Sentinel suggests that when
the Bedford County railroad is commenced
that the rails be heated red-hot, 50 that the
workmen will lay them down rapidly.
| Ulrich Knecht, a well-to-do. farmer near
Easton, hung himself to the limb Of tree
on Tuesday 9th inst. He had been in
melancholy mood for some time.
The total interments of Union soldiers
in all the cemeteries of the country IS
397,6 ,694. Of these The unknown num-
Der III ,090 and the known 169604
Joseph Dunn, a farmer, was killed by
lightning. near Mount Pleasant Furnace,
| Clarion county, a few days since. He was
standing under a tree when the accident
occurred.
Edward Mullen, the pedestrian, walked
115 miles in 23 hours, i minutes, in New
! York on Monday, beating Westons time )
minutes. He proposes walking 500 miles
in six days.
| Rosentine and Moody are to be hanged
in Harrisburg on Thursday, the 9th Of July,
Fl for the murder of Benin. The death war-
rants were signed by Governor Hutran4
on Wednesday.
The cholera has appeared IN New Or
leans and fears are entertained that in con
Il sequence o., the late floods, and the sosgy
condition of the country, 1t may spread
and become unusually virUlent.
1t cost Just $500 for a criminal to ride
from the New York Tombs to BlackweIs
Island ferry in carriage, SO as not to be
subjected to the gaze Of the vulgar crowd
This is the Sheriff. nice little perquisjte
:, During a recent gale in Maine man
was in his barn, when it was taken into the
, air about a hundred feet and carried ts-
tance Of over half mile, where it struck
/ in a swamp. The occupant was uninjurad'
The new loan obtained in England on
the bonds of the Wyoming Coal and Iron
Company, guaranteed by the New jersey
Central Railroad, is for e2,00O0J9 o.
S10,000,00O, and is payable in four install
ments of 100000 during the summer.
Benjamin L. Tyler, living near Woods
, town, has an orchard of ounce trees con-
: tanning 100 trees He also has 260O Ps.aIL
trees, one-half of which are dwarts -29
a cherry trees, $50 peach trees and 500 apg'
= trees, making a total of nearly 5000 trees
{ We learn from the Lancaster papers tn1,
! ! the Colorado potato bugs have made t1a
F., appearance on some of the farms IN 'iI,
county. They are making sad havoc WIN W..
! the potatoes, which, previous to the 's,.
ton of these pests, were growing YlSo''"
) ly.
/ On Wednesday evening, as tram "
5 the West Jersey railroad was passins ~
t station at Gloucester City, a number
v boys threw stones at it, one Of which s'lg, ,
: a lady on the head, infictlng a S'''~
e wound
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