The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-11-05
A Reading woman has elected from her
black lizard two inches long.

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talking about organizing base ball club.
Twenty-one girls of Kensoha, Wiscon-
sin, "Resolved, that if the young men
won't come to see us, we will 60 and see
them" and the young men have fed to the
woods in terror and dismay
A train on the Central Railroad of New
Jersey, consisting of locomotive and three
cars, made the remarkable time few days
ago of running seventy-four miles in eighty
six and half minutes, from Easton to Jer-
sey City.
In Huntington county resides an i'm
pecunious individual who didn't have suf-
ficient sum of money to pay the preacher
who married him, but he squared the mat
ter up by presenting the man Of the Gospel
with SOW and two pigs
DR.. John Stephen, of Calvindale, Berks
county, recently cut down large white
oak tree, which was over five feet IN diam
eter. Old judges of such matters, counted
the rings, and say the tree was three hun
dred and three years old.
A large quantity of very valuable iron
ore has been found on farm belonging to the
estate of the late Stephen Deshler, OF
Easton, which is situated near what is
called the Half Way House on the public
road leading from Bethlehem to Easton.
The Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry, have
issued an invitation to all Pennsylvania
regiments to meet in reunion at Wilkes
barre, on June 6, 1875 The object of this
is to form an organiztion of all the regi-
ments of this State who had enlisted in the
late rebellion.
The smallpox appears to be epidene IN
some portions of Dauphin county. The
citizens of Harrisburg have taken up
subscription for the benefit Of the suffer
ers. In one instance it is stated that wild
ow and her five children are down with
the disgusting disease.
1t is said that there were last year 81 )
900 children between the ages Of fve and
twenty wears in Vermont, and that Only
about $4,000 actually attended schools.
The total cost Of schools was S737 900.
Vermont having no school fund tie whole
of this sum had to be raised by taxation.
Vermont gives her children only 20 weeks
schooling.
George Reynolds, of Salt Lake City, has
been indicted for polygamy under the Con
gressionaI law of 1852, AID held to bad.
This is the first irdictment III this city IN
der the act Of Congress, the former one
having been found under Territorial law.
The case will probably go to the Supreme
Court of the United States.
About nine years ago child was stolen
from It's parents, John [. lucas and wife,
near MiIesburg, Centre county Every
search was made for the little one, who
was scarcely three years OF ago, bat with
out success. Recently the father received
information that led to the recovery of his
long-lost son, who was discovered working
on farpa as full grown boy, near BIairs-
vile
Is Is curious fact that while business of
every kind is depressed, and the wages of
labor are being considerably reduced, the
price of boots and billiards. and boiled
chestnuts and opera tickets, and horse, Rire
and sleeve buttons, ard devileG crabs and
other Becessaries of life remain unchanged
This is probably owing to the graSshcpper
plague In the West--IEorxistogn Herald
4 Harrisburg nan who Was suffering
from hunger, turned to his mothers Bible
for consoiation-he had not opened the
good book for years He found ten dol
lar bill between the [eaves, and then for
the first time in his remembrance prayed
This teaches lesson TO all, to 60 to the
good book when afflicted, aud let US hope
hat your ten dollar bill may not prove to
be counterfeit, as did that Of the Harrisburg
man.
DR.. William Parker, of ConBeIIsviFIe,
Pa, was arrested on Monday at that place
by Isaac Myers, special agent of the Post
Office Department, charged with using the
post Office for the purpose of defrauding
certain persons in London, England His
scheme was to write to wealthy people In
England, telling them their relations were
here in INDECENT circumstances and that he
was taking care of them and requested
money for their use.
The McConnellsburg Republican says: A
couple Sundays ago, during services at the
Reformed Church, a snow white pigeon
entered the church, and after describing
couple circles in the holy sanctuary, rested
on the minister's head-Mr. Shade. He
drove his strange visitor away with his
hand, when it calmly took position on
the Bible and serenely surveyed the con-
gregation until its removal from the |
church. 1t was pretty and odd change
of programme.
The English accountants who made
trip to this country to investigate the books
OF the Erie Railroad Company, made re-
port by no means satisfactory to the stock
holders and convertible bondholders The
accounts represented by those experts to
be quite as fallacious as they were asserted
to have been by ex-Auditor Dunan. A
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