The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-08-26

The heaTy rams during the past two
three days have caused d considerable Or
in the SchtylkAf, at Reading. Use
Ex-Governor Biglef has opened , 49,
fire clay mine of excellent quality aaI I"
coal bank on his farm over the river o", ,,nu
site Clearfold, Pa. 'Ppo'
B. T. Bound, of Kingston, susnocto5
having poisoned his wife few wecEs -. U
has been displaced from the Suner;n,"S5
ency of the Lackawanna and BioomsISlI'u
Railroad
At Baltimore, the other dat, there rr.
such glut of peaches that the fruit ra m"
literally given away by the boxfnl N T-
money has been made at the business -C ",
far.
a lady, who was a great sufferer froo
headache, drove six-penny nail into J,, tba
back Of her head as a cure. Its effect
decided, and she is now in an insane os'.
lum.
The potato bug appears to be emuI,t;no
the example set by the herd of swine wb;o23
ran violently down steep place and ner
ished in the water 1t is that thew arn A..
ing by millions into the Atlantic ocean
Rev. f. w. Kremer D. d., paster oF
the First Reformed congregation at Lcb,n
on, has congregation numbering abont
fifteen hundred members Within the IaSt
year, of that number only eight persons
died
Two years ago Pennsylvania servant
girl was sent to prison for stealing s20o
from her employer. The money was foun5
the other day where the man had hidden
it, and now he offers the girl Sc as recon,
pense, while she wants ten thousand.
Some of the country hotel keepers in
Lancaster county now give blasts on loud
sounding dinner horns when they see ,
candidate approaching This calls all the
farm hands and villagers together, who are
glad to quench their thirst at the expense
Of office seekers, while the landlord fills his
Golfers.
4 Wilkesbare, Pa, despatch saws
The Wyoming Grove camp meeting was
attended on Sunday by over one hundred
thousand persons DR., Nelson, of the
Methodist Episcopal Book Concern. of New
York, and w. Ii. Olin, of Wilkesbarre,
preached.
y Scranton woman considerably startled
the minions of the law the other dav. Two
of them called on her and expressed de-
sire to levy her goods and chattcls this
their owner objected to, on principle. ap-
parcntly y cared little about the furniture. as
she smashed it in reckless manner over
the heads Of the officers.
Wednesday and Thursday of next week
are the last days on which voters can be
in order to participate in the
next election. We hope our Republican,
friends in all the districts will not fail to
attend to this matter Last year We lost
many votes through ignorance of or inatten-
ton to the law if we lose them again it will
be by pure negligence.
The whole number of locomotives in the
world is estimated at fifty thousand. Of
which nearly fifteen thousand are in the
United States and nearly eleven thousand
in Great Britain. The aggregate horse
power Is estimated at ten millions, and all
engines in use-locomotive. marine and
5tatlonary-arc supposed to aggregate four
teen millions horse power.
Surely this will 60 down into history as
the year of storms and foods. France. Eng
and and our own country have been severe
y visited, and now the wheel of fortune
mas emptied another blessing in disguise
upon France, y disastrous hail storm and
hurricane swept over the section of country
,wcnty miles northwest of Paris. on Friday
asst, killing cattle, destroying trees and in
uring number of people
Rochester has sixteen Touring mills,
which last year manufactured SIS, 900 bar
els Of flour bushels of wheat consumed,
2,33l 900 ; men employed III runs of
tone, 81. In addition to this 600 coopcrs
ind employment in making barrels for
hese mills. Rochester claims to produce
more flour to-day than she ever did before,
nd more of the higher grades than any
'ther city in the United States.
a Frenchman named Georges has been
or many years experimenting on the pre-
ervation Of fish. At length he has invcn-
ed fluid which appears to be exactly what
5 desired. Various kinds of fish were
'laced in bath of the solution for two
lours, then put in a cellar, and after six
lays were found in a state of perfect pre-
erYation. Both flavor and colcr were per
ect. This invention is believed to be of
.reat value
The booms at Lock Haven and Williams
ort were again filed with logs by the late
oods and the mills are once more in full
peration. The booms contain logs enough
cut near two hundred million feet of
lumber, 1t is said. This is very fine for
hose who want to buy and for the work
nen on the saw mills, but not so for the
whose yards are already
tocked with manufactured lumber for
Thlch there is no demand.