The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-11-25

line of succession to the President of the
United States.
A FELLOW has been sent to prison in
Philadelphia for stealing the Ledger from
subscribers doors.
Appearances indicate that the whisky
makers have got into more trouble than
the drinkers ever did.
AN eleven-year girl in Lycoming
county is four feet three inches high and
weighs 1873 pounds.
THE travel of great city. The New
York horse cars last year carried 149, ,S32,
SOL paying passengers.
REPRESENTATIVE Butler, of Cumber-
land county, has in preparation a bill for
the breaking up of the tramp nuisance.
BESIDES the growing foreign demand
for American cotton goods, there is also a
very fattering call for Aforementioned
leather.
A CENSUS, just completed, shows the
population of the town of Washington to be
1868, against 3,571 in 1870. A pretty
fair i-crease for FIVE years.
A MILLION bushels of peanuts were eaten
in this country last year. The man who
sweeps out the Detroit Opera House can
account for all but eleven bushels, which
were probably eaten in Allentown.
CHILD abductors are at work again in
PHILADELPHIA 1t is the best place in the
United States to steal a child and escape
pursuit. All the detectives chain up their
children regularly every morning.-DetroH
Free Prcc.
In those parts Of Louisiana where the
rice was cut early the long continued rains
flooded, and now from the old stubble Il
second rice crop has come up and is ready
to be cut. This will add largely to the
rice estimate.
THARE IL a CRATE meany rules to make
marrid life kmfortable but the golden
one is this go slow and give each other
half the road. This rule IL az simple and
easy az milking a cow on the rite side, and
will be found az usephul az lie to avoid hot
journals and hot axleS-JOSh Billings.
THERE are $50 inmates of the Berks
Cunty Almshouse. These eat in a week
three steers, each weighing 500 or 900
pounds, and twenty barrels of -four baked
into bread. On an average 112 loaves,
each weighing seven or eight pounds, are
baked every day.
a five dollar hill nurnort;pr to bo ;ccuod
by the First National Bank of Galena, ILL.,,
has been discovered in the National Bank
Redemption Agency There is no such
bank in existence. The note is evidently
altered from the plate of the Traders Ma
tional Bank Of Chicago.
THE following notice has been sent to
the postmasters Of this county and else
where by John Jay Knox, Comptroller OF
Currency, Washington
"Refuse all five dollar notes of the fol
lowing banks The First National Bank
of Chicago, ILL.,, The Traders National OF
Chicago, ILL.,, The First National Bank OF
Paxton, l., The First National Bank OF
Aurora, ILL., Nearly the entire amount ol
the genuine five dollar notes of these banks
has been withdrawn from circulation, and
no additional issues will be made The
Comptroller is desirious Of retiring the
whole amount from circulation, and all per
sons receiving such notes are urgently re-
quested to deposit the same with the near.
est national bank or to forward them to this
Office, for redemption"
Fools had better cut this out and paste
it in their hats. A couble of gypsies
persuaded Kokomo, Ind, farmer that
100000 in gold was buried on his farm
They knew the exact spot, and produced
an accurate diagram of the farmers rea
estate For $4,000 in greenbacks they
would raise the dust The farmer mortgaged
his farm, obtained the stipulated number Of
bank notes, and gave them to the gypsie.
to verify by actual count. One of then
fingered over, pronounced the total correct
and under pretence of rolling them W
again, substituted as many pieces of brown
paper, which were then tied up in napkin
and handed over to the agriculturalist, with
instructions not to meddle with the knots
For S75 in gold the gypsies eleverly
substituted corresponding weight in shot
and the negotiation was completed AL
that remained for the farmer to do wa,
to take shovelful of Indiana earth tc
Kentucky, and bring back shovelful O
4 Kentucky earth to be placed in the Indiana
hole. Then the gypsies would appear anc
raise the golden 100000. The flrme,
obeyed, and the exchange of shovelfuls wa.
effected, and the time arrived for the rean
pearance of the gypsies. They did moi
come they continued absent, and the Ko
komo granger, untymg the mysterious
Knots IN that napkin. found what il in th4