The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-10-01
NO. 49,.

Butler county has nine hundred and for
ty-fiye cases on the docket for trial
An apple, weighing 294 ounces, has
been grown by IA Nebraska pomologist.
\ New York doctor figures it out that
an average woman sheds one barrel of tears
in 40 years.
The oystermen of Atlantic county say
there will be an unusually large growth of
oysters this fall.
Hon. John 1. Blair has just presented
the Blairstown VI. f. Church with fine
bell weighing 1900 pounds
Eight hundred tons of grapes valued at
sl25 900, have been shipped from Vincland
during the present season.
According to the new city directory.
Reading has 81 churches, 156 societies and
- building associations
1t is said that the Louisiana sugar crop
will be splendid, probably fifty thousand
hogsheads above an average
Six hundred thousond tons will be the
maximum Of mcrchantable wheat. for transs
portation from San Francisco, this year
Two persons were married in an Illinois
town last week, the groom being eighty
two and the bride seventy-four years of
age.
Reuben Felix, of Longswamp township,
Berks county, has acres of corn ten to
twelve feet high, ears two feet ninc inches
long,
Some time ago five sisters of the order
of st. Benedictine, from Elizabeth. settled
in Easton, and now have school of POO
scholars
There will be no more State elections
until October 13, when Ohio West Vir-
ginia, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska hold
theirs
The Forest county blackberry crop is.
estimated by the Tionesta Press: at l0O.-
600 bushels, of which but 10000 bushels
were gathered.
William Clark was compelled to pay
$50 and costs in the Atlantic courts for
cutting off the name and tail of horse
belonging to a neighbor.
About ,O0O Icelanders will soon emIi-
CRATE to Wisconsin and settle on a tract of
land purchased by agents whom they sent
in advance few months ago.
Shartelsville, Berks county,, is excited
over an eight footed SOW with litter of
eight pigs, four Of which have eight feet
ah. All alive and squealing
A New York merchant writes to the
Attornav- Iapnrol +b,t l,,r,
arms and ammunition have been sold there
to organized bodies in the Southern States.
Some wealth. The Canadian banks
boast of S100,000,000 deposits, of which
over S34, 600 is on call. O,OOO. 900
after notice, and the balance permanently
invested
John Crown one EARNED soldier. attemp-.
ted to kill his wife in Paterson, n. j., on
Thursday, by stabbing her in several places
He then cut his own throat and shortly
after died
The forest fires in New Jersey pines
drive the snakes into the houses !; if fires.
IN the houses would only drive the snakes
Of society out into the pines such confagra,
tions would be blessings in disguise.
A stray balloon, with lady and gentle,
man IN it, is supposed to be floating about
IN space. 1t started from Calais. France.
on the 31st of August, and had not been
heard of since, at latest advices.,
number of recent experiments prove,
that wagons are most easily drawn on all
kinds of roads when the fore and hind
wheels are of the same size, and when the
pole lies lower than the axle.
The cheese made in Canada this wear
will closely approach S5,000,00O in value,
This looks remarkably like progress when
1t Is remembered that ten years ago there
was not such thing as cheese factory
in the country.
large vein of corundum has been
found near Unionville in Chester county.
Pa. This mineral serves the purpose of
emery. 1t has hitherto been found in
limited quantities, but now the supply is
said to be immense.
y Yankee poet thus breaks forth "Oh,
the snore, the beautiful snore. filing the
chamber from ceiling to floor Over the
coVerlet, under the sheet, from her wee
dmpled chin to her pretty feet ! Now
rising alott like bee in June now fuet-
like subsiding, then rising again, is the
beautiful snore of Elizabeth Jane.
Iou can patch your rubber boots or over
shoes to make them waterproof, as follows:
Cut patch out of rubber, and rub the
patch and the boot with sand-paper. Dis
solve little pure rubber in turpentine, or
naptha, to the thickness of molasses smear
the patch and boot FIVE time with this
letting it dry each time; then smear once
more and press together
This is the way the people who lives on
the coast of Maine describe their weather