The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-10-21

glands In the neckS or the ANIMALS. vt the
lowest calculation 1000 horses are suffer:
ing more or less from the disease.
THE Baltimore police have just smoked
out thief whose name is Henry Tobacco:
A Democratic county treasurer in Ohio
has disappeared with s2500 in county
funds.
Dauphin county produced a sweet potato
weighing four and a quarter pounds. An
editors family will dine from it.
There is an onion on exhibition at In
dianapolis which weighs fifteen pounds.
1t perfumes the entire central part Of the
State.
Up to the present time one million tons
less of coal have been sold in New York
this season than last year or several pre-
vious years.
There is trouble in Allegheny township,
Potter county. 4 Methodist minister
named Chase has ran away with the wife
of parishioner.
A PANTHER nine feet long from point
of nose to end of tail and weighing 40
ponnds was killed a few days ago at Pine
Bluff, on the Ouchita river, La,
From Chicago arrives very eneoIrag-
ing report of the business outlook The
heaviest houses say that trade has so far
exceeded their expectations, and it is being
done on healthy basis.
SINCE the first issue of postal cards two
years ago, 155, ,47S,000 cards have beer
issued, for which the Government has paid
the contractors 1857 ,349 S5, and has col
lected S2,554,7S0 from the people.
If turnips were bread, and cabbagcs
were meat, Kansas thinks she could take
contract to winter the paupers of the world
at two cents per head and make enough on
the contract to pay the entire State debt.
They are getting their winter fire wood
out at Eldorado, Iowa, out Of tamarack
forest thirty feet below the surface of the
ground. The wood, branches and back are
as fresh though the trees had just been
buried.
A LADY of Wilkosbarre, Pa, has just
made $500 out of the town authorities.
The pavement was not kept properly in re-
pair, and she in consequence fell, breaking
an arm. Then an action was brought, with
the result aforesaid.
THE Republicans of Northampton couif.
nominated VIM r. Yeager for Commits
sioner, and John Horner for Auditor, and
appointed committee to confer with the
Anti-ring Democrats as to the other candi-
Gates.
Great snakes Down in Arkansas they
recently killed rattlesnake twenty feet
long, twenty four inches around the girth,
three or four inches between the eyes and
which made track of eight and three
fourth inches.
A slab of quartz rock was recently ship
ped from the Green mine, Nevada contain
ing more than two square feet, through
, which there was streak about four inches
wide that was nearly or quite one half gold.
The piece was estimated to be worth at
least $500.
The Laporte Press and .Standard says :;
} 'The fate of the Democratic party was
, sealed when Piollet was put forward to
handle the peoples money. Piollet and
plunuer nave Deen SynOnynOuS wofdS Tor
, twenty-five years in this part of the State;
and the people will not trust him..
'THE two P's" In 1860 the Democrats
nominated Asa Packer for Governor and
c. L. Pershing for Judge of the Supreme
; Court ''The two P's'' were said to repre-
sent ''Peace and PROSPERITY" and to insure
, power. They have the two P's again,
Pershing and Piollet. Now they represent
''Psham and Plumber '-4tontrose Repub.
publican.
A NAN named Schel was lynched near
Belefentaine, Ohio, recently, for having
assaulted and murdered a yound girl named
Alice Laughlin. Fhe accusation was sup
ported by a story told by Schelrs wife, to
the effect that he had taken the girl into
the woods and destroyed her. After the
j. mob had hung Schell it turned out that
9 the murder was really committed by his
wife, who was jealous of the girl and wished
to get her and her husband out of the way.
> This is another example of the horrible
mistakes often made by those who resort
j. to mob law.