The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-11-04
LABOR conquers all things.

A Snyder county man still uses an al
manac which was published in 1775.
John Durr, of Dunkard, Greene county
has subsisted without food for twenty-six
days
A Kentucky farmer the other day paid
SIT ,15O for Durham heifer calf, four
months old
THERE are no old maids in Iowa A
girl got married there the other day at the
age of eighty-fvc.
THE Scranton Silk Company gives en-
ployment to 240 girls and does yearly
business Of S675, 900
y WEsTMoEELAND man, aged about "a
years, bought and married a girl of 23 the
other day for S3500
THE State prisons of New York contain
apps convicts, which are maintained at
heavy cost to the State.
E. l.. Hicks shot Archibald Anderson,
near Scranton, on Wednesday night, sup
posing him to be a desperate.
THE St Louis people are agitating the
project of building twelve story hotel
They want to beat the world.
y WEALTHY proprietor from Russia has
come to this country to discover how
Americans make such fine butter and cheese
HINT for horsemen A Massachusetts
horse troubled with the epizooty, recently
got at IA barrel of onions, ate three quarts,
and was cured.
Corn cobs stepped in hot water contain
ing two per cent. of saltpetre are used in
Europe as fire lighters, retailing at So and
81 thousand
IT is understood that the President has
in contemplation the removal of all the
Federal officers in Utah who hold to the
Mormon faith
THE patridges are remarkable cute in
Connecticut, this year. They fly into
churches, probably because sportsmen so
seldom go there.
WHEN saloon keepers allow people to
play for money in their saloons, they are
practically keeping a gambling house. The
New York Supreme Court says so.
AT THE Easton county, Michigan, Fair
a prize of ten dollars was given to Alice
Fuller, who proved satisfactorily that she
had been longer without a new dress than
anybody else in the county.
\ number of coon hunters in Girard.
Erie county, recently watched tree through
the long aud weary hours of the night, on
ly to find in the morning perched aloft the
family cat of one of the party.
THEY have found a petri6ed Mormon
in Utah. and from the number of dents in
the head, evidently made with poker and
fat iron, it is judged that he had at least
thirty-three wives-NorriSto,cn Herald.
AN ingenious Pennsylvania has inven-
ted and applied for a patent for an adjust
able dam" Something adjustable in
that line has long been needed for the
trouble is that people overdo the business
on slight provocation.
AN Erie canal boat captain, who had been
reading of Moody and Sankey, determined
to live better life, and calling his crew
around him he said "See here, you lying,
skulking, wicked, disgraceful set, you've
got to tend prayers every morning or I'll
lick the whole pile of you in a heap?
COLUMBUS, Oct. 27-The official vote
Of Ohio, at the October election shows the
result: Republican candidate
Governor, Hayes, POI, ,813; Allen 292,-
264 Hayes majority 5,549 Lieutenant
Governor, Young, 297, 7,941; Cary, 287,-
)G0 :-Young's majority, 9,9G3.
THE supreme court of Wisconsin has re-
emily decided that the whipping of child
Iy public school teacher is an assault and
battery, and is unjustifable, and that the
eacher who fourishes the rod may be
nulcted in damages as we'll as held answer
ble for violating the dignity of the law.
AN oil driller got drunk in Butler, the
,ther day, and married girl of doubtful
equation, after courtship lasting ten
minutes. When he got sober he repented,
nd the pair went to lawyers Office, where
be woman accepted ten dollars aud articles
# separation were drawn up.
NEVER take drugs without first consult
no a physician, unless you want to share !
he fate of George Sykes and William Rus
el, of Elk county, who, on the strength of
receipt in quack "every man his own :
octor' book, commenced swallowing crude
hosphorus for weak nerves. Their nerves
s well as their souls are now at rest.
On Sunday, the 10th ult. snow drift,
hree feet high by actual measurement was
ormed on the mountain between this city ,
nd Waymart The old Dundaff and Wilkes G
Barre turnpike running through Greenfield c
,as also blown full of snow, in some places :
We feet deep, so that people going to church
n Finchs hill were obliged to remove
,nces and drive through the fields. Isn't
his pretty severe for the middle of Octo- /
er p CarbondaIc AdUance.
THE other day Sam Bowles went to t