The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-12-23

In Michigan last year SIS, ,493 people
were married, and about half of them were
men.
AT Richmond, Va, Friday evening, the
thermometer fell from 81 to 20 degrees il
seven horus time.
| A woodchoper named Mullen was found
frozen to death on Saturday, near fremont
n III. He had been drinking.
THE colored Methodist Episcopal Church
has now four Bishops and membership o.
5000 in the Southern and Western
States
W. B. Thompson was hanged at Lewis
burg, Ark, on Friday, for the murder OF
Mrs Stover, a widow. Thompson confessed
his guilt.
Pay up or get no physic. The doctors
of Tamaqua have formed ring, and
decreed that they viii attend no person or
family who is indebted to any one of the
fraternity.
Nick THOMPSON, the negro, who killed
Captain James II. Hunter, at Quitman,
Ga, in October, 1874, was hung at that
place last Friday moring. Governor Smith
refused TO respite him.
WILLIAM ELLIS, Charles Weston and
William Thompson, colored, were hanged
at New York last Friday, for the murder
of Abraham Weisberg, Jewish peddler,
at West Farms, last September.
A. WOODWARD, who as treasurer of
Shelby county, Tennessee, absconded several
years ago with ST. 800 of the county's cash,
was apprehended at San Franciscan on Fri
day, and is now on his way East to stand
trial for his official misdemeanor.
The Commissioners of the State Sinking
Fund publish an official statement, show
ing s71O,684.27 on hand, applicable to the
public debt, and balance of $50, ,334.7 IS
in the Treasury The amount of debt paid
during the month of November was $780,
716.40.
PRESIDENT GRANT has appointed Geo.
t. Seward, our consul-general at Shanghai,
minister to China in place of Mr.. Avery,
deceased, and Ex-Governor James Birney,
of Michigan, and at present Centennial
Commissioner from that State, minister to
the Netherlands, in place Of Mr.. Stock
bridge, declined.
JOSEPH NJ. RoTHRoCK, for seven years
a clerk in the Baltimore post office, was
arrested there on Thursday night by Special
Agent William T. Henderson, on the
charge of robbing the mails. Two letters
were found on his person when arrested.
United States Commissioner Rogers re-
leased him on 1000 bail
John D. Pott, of Jersey Shore, has dog
three years old, which measures fourteen
inches across the shoulders. He is twenty
four inches around the neck, eight inches
around the legs, twenty-one high, forty
eight around the breast and forty-six in
length, from nose to tail. He is so exces.
sively fat that he can hardly get up.
On Saturday morning l=ssss, the United
States express car on the St. Louis, Kansas
City and Northern train was entered be-
tween Furguson and Jennings station, some
ten or twelve miles from St. Louis, the mes
senger, Charles Kincaid, was thrown into
a large package chest and locked up, and
the safe robbed of from $4,000 to S20,-
900 in money and bonds.
Mr.. Israel Fegely, of Longswamy town
ship, Berks county, has three frogs in his
house which he has tanned and made
househould pets Of They have taken up
their abode among a number Of window
plants, where they sleep at night, and feed
upon the aphides, plant-lice, and other in
sects injurious to plants. They have be-
come greatly attached TO their new home,
and hop from one room to the other.
THE poisoning of women's legs by col
ored stockings has been reported on by a
by Prof Mariner, Chicago chemist. He
says that the seal-brown and reddish brown
hues contain picric acid which will poison
the flesh with which it comes in close con-
tact. He adds: Gas these dyes are used
not only in coloring all kinds of fabrics, but
also for confectionery, liquor, cosmetics,
and great variety of objects, the danger
attending their use can be readily apprecia-
ted
The Titusville Courier is authority for
the statement that Boss Tweed is hidden
away in the wilds of Forest county; that
one Of the Boss friends owns large tract
of land in that county that man strong
ly resembling Tweed left train at Irving,
ton, accompanied by six men that they
crossed the river, purchased team, loaded
on their luggage and started in the direc
ton Of Forest county that the Great Els
capped has been traced into that part o.
Pennsylvania, and that two detectives are
now in Tionesta seeking him All ofwhich
must be taken cum gTa1lO SdltS.
Comundrum from the Scranton RepubH
can: BY the way, what has become of the
Legislative Treasury Investigating Com
mittee, that was SO very active just previ
Gus to the late election Have the com
mittee looked into the affairs of the Treas
ury SO as to cover the administrations O
McGrath, Irwin, Kemble and Mackey, a.
required by the action of the House O
| Representatives We fear the committe,
have not done their duty in the premises
They went to work crab fashion and seen
| to have progressed no further than Mr.