The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-07-23
MISCELLAN EO is.

Baron.
Readings chief detective is charged with
horse stealing.
Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the late Presi-
dent, is in Paris.
Reading is to have a manufactory of ar
tifcial stone.
A Reading hen laid fourteen eggs in
seven days, and claims the championship.
J. w. Jones, of Harrisburg, has been
appointed superintendent of State print
ing.
Many cows have been killed by light
ming in Chester county, within week or
two past.
On Monday a week William Holmes, Sus-
quehanna county, had nine calves killed
by lightning.
There are forty Postmastors in the Uni
ted States whose salaries are just on dollar
a year each.
A spring-house in Amity township,
Berks county, is 112 years old, but the
walls are as good as new.
Judge Geordon, of the Supreme Court
of this State, is confined to his house by
severe rheumatic attack.
Harrisburg has about forty churches
The Methodists are IN the lead in the
number of houses Of worship and member
ship.
=. Solomon Horn, of Sandycreek township,
Mercer county, aged eighty-seyen years
walked eighteen miles in six hours, on the
4th inst
+ Kentucky, Montana, North Carolina,
and Utah hold elections in August, and
there are six State elections to be held in
september
\ Lightning killed eight colts which had
taken shelter under tree m Lancaster
county on the 11th inst Two COWS were
KILLED at another point
A returning emigraut wagon passed
: through Cedar Falls, Iowa, last week bear
ing the expressive and euphonious label,
E''D-n the grasshoppers.
/ A Lancaster county man, worth $780,
1000 had his shoes stolen the other day, and
Expresses his determination to 90 bare
footed until cold weather comes.
Graves who sra5ed his wife for a razor,
razor strap and days work, to another
man in Potter county, has made his last
!, bswap He died last week
8, Mr.. Joseph Mann, wealthy resident of
Uhlersyilley Northampton county, commit
ted suicide by hanging hmcself on the
I11th inst Mental depression was the
cause
/ Iandlady (ferceIy)-"You must not oc-
cupy that bed with your boots on y Boar
der.--"O, never mind, they're only an old
pair The bed-bugs can't hurt en- III
risk it, anyhow
t: 4 good way 20 restore 4 man apparently
drowned, is to first dry him thoroughly, in
side and out, and then clap a speaking
; trumpet to his car and inform him that his
c mother-in-law's dead.
An unknown man, supposed! te be
Michael Nester. of Portland, Connecticut,
e was killed on Saturday night on the Lehigh
a Valley railroad at Easton. He had fallen
on the track while intoxicated.
e A boy of seven years, named Fassnacht,
q was killed by lightning in his father 5
u house, in West Cocalico township, Lancas-
Q ter country, on the 10th inst. The same
. bolt struck the cradle in which an infant
i was lying, tearing out the headboard but
, leaving the child unhurt
j The blackberry crop on the mountains
: in the vicinity of Hemlock and Portage,
; says the Johnstown Tribune, promises to
: be even larger than last year, and residents
: in the above named localities would't be
r surprised if the value of the amount to be
t disposed of would reach 100000
When a Williamsport man got home
after twelve the other night, he told his
wife that he chad been (hic) taking a-a-a
walk (hic) around t-t-the other side (hic)
of the com-comet (hic) just to see how
(hic) the old thing looked" She kept him
pretty busy the rest of the night answer
: ing questions about it.
4 There are in Philadelphia fifteen railway
companies, with S51 cars and 5000 horses.
y During the year 1873 they carried 73, I'll
y 99l passengers, the expenses of which We're
y 1886 ,436, and the receipts S4,622, ,351.
n leaving the profits as 81, ,265 ,915. During
}. the year there were II persons killed and II
IS injured on the different roads.
/ The deficits in the First National Bank
h of New Bedford, Mass, caused by John
r 2. Barker, cashier, have been made good
d by his friends, and no loss falls upon the
d bank. The defalcation is stated at $40
d 600. Barker is nearly sixty years of age
II and has been cashier about twenty years
The long-talked-of and oft-postponed in
p ter-colegiate regatta took place on LAX,
Saratoga, n. Y, on Saturday, the Columbia
D crew coming off the winners; distancing all
: competitors. The distance rowed was thre,
miles straight away" Time of the vic