The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-06-10

Snow two feet deep is reported in the
back woods Of the Ottawa district of Can
ada.
During the month of June, the Treasury
Department will sell S2,00O,00O gold.
Louisiana will raise 100000 barrels of
rice this season, or twice as much at last
year.
Advices from Greeley, Colorado, report
the wheat crop of that section destroyed by
grasshoppers.
The total value of the agricultural i'm
plements sent abroad by us last year was
S3,0S0,755.
Ice left by the great frcshct at Port
Jervis still remains in large piles on the
Delaware near that village.
Judge Rockefeller thinks it will take a
month to clear the criminal calendar alone
of Northumberland county.
According to a census just completed,
Altoona has a population Of 1929, and
3,004 families,
Be fruitful and multiply The orchards
of this country are estimated to occupy
5OO,0 900 acres and contain 20, 900, 600 trees
Experience tells the Coatesville Uuion
that small man can cat more than large
one.
The public debt was reduced S1,1S9,-
$50 during the month of May, and S12, :
$685. since the 1st of July last year.
California is not to have the monopoly
of big trees. A fallen tree recently found
in Victoria, Australia, measured four hun
drcd and eighty feet in length.
The shad fisheries on the Hudson this
year are an unprecedented success. At one
point, few days since, the fishermen took
six thousand in twelve hours.
Texas has rivaled Georgia this year in
putting the first new -four on exhibition,
both of which had samples on the St. Louis
Merchants Exchange on May 80.
The amount of fruit annually sold in
this country is about S45, 100000, and
about 81 ,000, 900 worth Of fresh and dried
fruit is exported annually.
Mr.. Adam Zimmerman, of Lebanon, is
the owner Of a common breed hen which
has laid one hundred and five eggs from
Christmas to May 9th.
There are ,6G0 superannuatcs and 679
among the travelling
preachers in the Methodist Episcopal
Church in this country.
William +. Leslie, receiving teller of
Duncan. Sherman & Co., New York, has
absconded with $4,000 belonging to the
firm
D. P. Cloyd, one of the editors of the
Dardenclle (Ark.) Independent, shot and
killed Hon. r. W. Wishart on Thursday
night.
George W. Pemberton, charged with
killing Mrs. Bingham, i'll East Boston, on
the 22d of March last, has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
Nature is not yet in melting mood at
Niagara An ice-bank twenty feet high is
still to be seen at the foot of the American
Falls, there.
Extremes. 4 lady in Clarion county
gave birth, three weeks ago, to a child
one and half pounds. She has
another child which weighed at its birth
seventeen pounds.
The potato bug has begun its work of de-
struction in this State and Delaware, and
it has also appeared in the southern coun-
ties of New Jersey, where it is consuming
the plants by the acre.
George O. Evans, whose trial on charge
Of fraud in the collection of the State
claims against the General Government re-
Gently made considerable sensation, died
in West Philadelphia, Thursday night aged
ifty-four.
The crops generally are reported to be
IN good condition, and promise an abund
ant yield, except the winter wheat and
barley the latter being damaged to some
extent by the bugs and pests.
And now learned European saran
comes forward and upsets all our pet the
ories by declaring that the right time to
70 to bed is just after eating the principal
meal of the day.
Yesterday, a brace of boys brought into
his Office quantity of snow, taken from
l considerable pile remaining in friend
Hull's lanyard. With little care, we
.hink we may be able to introduce the snow
IF the winter of 70 to that of '76.-Lecis-
1ug Chronicle, June 4h.
They are polite to burglars in Tyrone
The Herald says We are requested to
state that the party who attempted to
)reak into certain store, few nights ago.
5 well known, and if the attempt is re-
oeated there will be funeral, that's all.
1t is reported that Anna Culver, of Penn
ylyanian, who went out to the.sFiji Islands
asst summer as missionary, is at home
lgain. Her first Sunday school class came
huff1mg into her house one morning with