The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-08-05

landed in New York. The number of girls
between eighteen and twenty years Of age
was quite large The men were mostly far
rners. They proceeded directly to Utah.
A Galveston hen has distinguished her
self by laying curious double egg, consist
I ing of an outer and an inner body The
former is larger than an ordinary gooses
egg, and has no yolk. Inthe place where
the yolk ought to be lies the inner egg,
covered almost completely with a hard,
shell, and perfectly formed in every other
particular.
Attorney-General Pierrepont has decided
against the validity of the famous Chorpen-
ming claim ON the United States Postal De
partment for S445,000. The Attorney
General is of opinion that the sum men
tioned-which, by the way, was awarded
| by the late Postmaster r-General-cannot be
recovered in court, being void under the
statute Of limitations ~ i5UH4t
\ census of the city of New York, by
State authority, has just been made, which
shows total population of about 1,100,-
900. This result is great disappointment
to the Democrats, who counted on ,500,-
900, which would materially enlarge their
representation in the Legislature. Senators
and Assemblymen are to be appointed next
winter on the basis of the enumeration now
made. f II
A Vicksburg boy got hold of news
paper the other day which said that hot
drinks were more cooling to the system
than cool beverages. He emptied hand
full of ground pepper into the cofee-pot in
order to test the experiment, and soon after
breakfast he was heard confessing to his
father his disbelief in domestic recipes of
any kind whatever. The father used a
barrel stave to aid his side of the argument
A wealthy farmer Familiarity known as
"Old Stefy," who lives near the Lehigh
County Poor House, has stack of hay
standing in one of his fields which was
placed there twenty years ago. When the
hay was cut and stacked the farmer could
not get his price for it, and resolved that
it might stand where it was until it would
rot, and that is what it is doing, sinking
pereeptibly each year as it gets older.
y few days ago a resident of Port Jer-
Wis, was taken sick and sent for doctor,
the doctor left prescription, with the re-
quest that one of his children should call at
his Office the next day and say how the pa
tient was doing A little girl came, and,
when questioned, she promptly answered {:
| "Please sir, father is getting better; he's
broke the stove all to pieces this morning,
and been fighting mother just Ike he
used to '' 8.
The men who now control Tammany
Hall are wedding out the insubordinate ele-
ments, and have expelled John Morrissey,
Jimmy Hayes, Judge Lcdwith and several
other active leaders Of the ''shOrt-hair' fac
tion from the General Committee The
culprits were not sufficiently obcdient to
party discipline. They have taken steps to
form an organization Of their own and there
is very fair, prospect that Tammany will
suffer a pretty bad wrench before the
trouble blowssovcrs b Ell HW
Through tickets are now sold from New
York to Australia, Japan, China and India,
Il distance exceeding 1909 miles The
route will be by the way of the Erie rail
way, and the Union and Central Pacific
railways to San Francisco, and thence by
steamer to the points dictated Under this
arrangement passengers can secure berths
i'll San Francisco steamers at time of pur-
chasing tickets in New York. Two hun
dred and fifty pounds of baggage are allowed
each passenger free.
Recent crop reports from Europe indi-
cate that the harvest of grain is better than
was supposed few weeks ago. The wheat
that was prOstrated and badly damaged by
heavy wind and rain had partially recover
ed, and it was hoped that if fine weather
followed much Of it would be saved The
rise in the price had been equal to II cents
per bushel in a single week, but at last ac-
!. counts it was rather lower. From Russia
it is now reported that wheatswiH yieh a
fair average. The demand for shipments
from this country, however, is still main
tanned.
Ia recent case in Elk county, Judge
Williams decided that purchaser of land
at tax sale took no title at the time that
the owner retained his legal title, and that
the purchaser had no right under his tax
deed until the expiration of the term for
redemption, and no remedy in law OF equity.
although the owner might remove all the
timber and every thing else of value on the
land before the two years expired; and
thus, ifthe land was of no value except for
timber, compel the unlucky purchaser at q
tax sale to lose the money he had paid the
County Treasurer for the lands.
About twenty-thrcc years ago, Jeremiah
Percc, well known grocer of Providence
eloped with the wife of Thomas Harring.
ton one of his tenants, and, "a short time
after, Mrs. Harrington returned, seeming.
iy. pemtent, but soon disappeared again
with her fve-year-old daughter. Since
then he nothing has been heard from anv Of
the party, till, a few days ago, an adver.
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