The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-09-17
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Northumberland schools will take no
boys that use tobacco
Apples are relling in the New Castle
market at twenty-five cents per bushel.
i, One hundred men were discharged from
the Erie shops at Susquehanna last Satur-
day.
There have been 10000 visitors to the
Philadelphia geological Garden since the
first of July.
The Mayor of Reading has sued two
men for SANDER, they having circulated
bad stories about him.
The furnace at South Easton, which has
been undergoing repairs, viii be completed
and blown in the course of few days.
You can buy out California this year if.
you happen to have the trifing sum of
S609,O00,0 900 about you. That's its valua
ton.
A pair of twin sisters, living in South
Bethlehem gave birth to twins ON Satur-
day night The four youngsters were born
about the same hour.
The decrease in coal shipped from the
Lehigh region this year, as compared with
same time last year, by way of the New
jersey Central route, is 276,930 tons.
a greenhorn sat long time very atten-
lively musing upon cane bottom chair.
At length he said, 4 wonder what fellow
took the trouble to find all them are holes
and put straws around EN- y
A grape vine on the farm OF Franklin
Smith, in Salisbury, Lehigh county, has
grown the present season forty-two feet.
Beans grown on the same property, arc
from twenty-five to twentyfour inches in
length.
Great excitement has resulted at War
minister, Bucks county, from the elope-
ment of a beautiful white girl, aged eigh7
teen years, named Annie Thompson, and
respectfully connected, with negro called
Joe Palmer. The affair has stricken down
the parents with grief
OF the Democratic candidate for Auditor
General the Grcensburg Tribune and Her
aid says "Mr. Temple, of Greene county,
is another strange nomination, and not such
has no record except that which he kept
while acting as Prothonotary Of Greene
| county"
There was to be a marriage in French
village, and all the guests were punctual,
but the bridegroom could not be found
He was discovered at last up tree, but
would not come down till the future father
in-law conveyed to him farm that had
been promised. Much protestation and
many tears, but he was firm. Finally the
papers were signed, and down he came.
Commend us to Mrs. Hurtel, of Rails
ton, Pa. She caught thief in her bed
room last week, collared him. and shook
him up so industriously that his hat fell
off Out of his hat fell her pocketbook
which he had secreted The brave lady in
! picking up her pocketbook was incautious
enough to let 90 of her thief, who did not
wait to recover his hat nor to make even
the most limited inquiry as to what direc-
ton he should take.
The fortunitous Democratic nominee for
Auditor General, Justus Tcmple-not a
Temple of Justice lawyer of vast pro-
fundity, and has been so regarded by all
acute jurists who have been thrown in con-
tact with him As proof of his standing
as such In Greene county-and here alone
is he known-we relate the following
colloquy which actually took place in the
Greene county Court House, between this
Justice, and His Honor, the late Judge
Gilmore 1t was case in which Justice
had brought his client into Court feet fore
Haost-or an action wrong brought and
as matter of course the case would be
elected head foremost from the Court In
an infantie effort on the part Of Justice
to save his client, he piteously inquired,
"What, then, may it please your Honor,
will my client do" The Judge, who had
for some moments been thus tortured, look
ing out over the head of Justice" Temple,
glancing "A look over the audience with an
eye like wounded panther, and his teeth
clenched and lips parted, exclaimed, Why
,ciy, get a-a LatCyer. = LHonto1cn Stan
dard
The correspondent of the Middletown
Mercury furnishes that paper the following
item
''There are no finer grass farms in the
world than those in the southwestern part
of Wayne county, Pa. The townships OF
Sterling, Salem, Canaan, and others, are
almost one continuous extent of meadow
and mountain grass land. Thousands OF
tons are raised annually, During the fall
and winter months the turnpikes leading
to Scranton from that section of country
are filed with wagons earting hay to that
city, the markets of that place being stocked
almost entirely with Wayne county grass
There is laud in Pike county, lying just
the same as these fine farms, but which is
either covered with shaggy growth Of
scrub oak or is sparsely timbered and con
sidered of no value, which is natuarl grass
land and could be transformed into first
class grazing farms with very little expense
The natives cannot see it, however, and die