The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-12-02

A SEVERE snow storm prevailed at
Syracuse, n. Y, on Monday.
JUDGE LAURY, of Slatington, owns a
rush bottom chair 225 years old.
THE new Mexican county jail is com
pleted. The structure cost S35 600.
LEHIGHToN's new national bank is Off
ciallv authorized to commence business.
ALARGE number of vessels have stripped
and gone into winter quarters at Cleve-
land.
GENERAL SHERMAN reports the strength
Of the regular army at 1910 officers and
24.031 enlisted men.
PROF. ROGERS estimates the ultimate
Weld of the Big Bonanza mines at Virginia
City at $500, 100000.
DURING the past year the consumption
of ale and beer in Philadelphia has fallen
off thirty-three per cent.
CORNER loafers are being arrested aud
held in $500 bail for their good behavior
for one year, in Reading,
A MAN seventy-fve years old has been
arrested in Berks county on a charge of
fornication and bastardy.
THE Democrats are quarreling like fury
over the Speakership. All right. Let
them skin their own skunks.
CRUDE bullion to the amount of about
100000 pounds passed over the Utah
Southern railroad last month.
THE West Chester Record has received
from one Of its rural admirers radish four
feet and nine inches in length.
A SWEDISH schoolhouse, for exhibition
at the Centennial, has been shipped from
that country to Philadelphia.
THE receipts at the various places of pub
lie amusement in New York city on Thanks
giving Day aggregated $50, 400.
The shipments of boots and shoes from
Boston still continue largely in excess Of
those for this season Of last year.
In London, with 1900, 600 inhabitants,
there were three births to two deaths to
every quarter of an hour in 1874
THOMAS HELLMAN was killed on Satur-
day night near Port Jervis, n. Y, by
William Morgan during drunken quarrel.
THE total number of hogs slaughtered at
Cincinnati since November l is 122, ,915.
In the same time last year 1851 were
killed
THERE is an appletree one hundred years
old in Donegal township, Westmoreland
county, still thrifty and able to bear good
fruit.
Hon. WILLIAM MCLEAN, of Gettys-
burg, has French Bible is good preserva
ton printed at Lyons in 1892, nearly 30C
years ago.
\ BARN in Pottsgrove, Montgomery
county, was covered with cedar shingles il
the year 1915, and the roof is still in goot
: condition.
4 PETRoLIA man recently killed a sheep
dressed the pelt, put it in drum heaC
and used the drum in a band, all III tn,
same day.
THE Centennial women have raised tht
$50, 900 for their building, and have ais,
contributed s95, ,14O to the general fund 0
the exhibition.
c TIE Black Hills gold gulches are re
ported full Of miners, who are workin;
= without Interference, the troops havin:
been Withdrawn.
b A PARTY of Lykens hunters came bacI
from Potter county with eleven deer,
black bear, red fox, jack rabbit, and
i, black squirrel.
i THE New York banks are said to b
: glutted with unemployed capital, few or
+ portunities presenting themselves for pay
p ing investments.
4 A MAN of Bradford county, who is on
u hundred years Of age, left his wife 0
j seventy-eight years, several weeks ago, GU
of mere jealously.
WHEN you hear man say that tn
;, world owes him living, don't leave an
t, movable articles, particularly any ban
d bills, lying around loose.
2 THIS years crop of apples in Michiga
surpasses anything ever produced there be
n fore. From Adrian alone 22.851 barrel
:. were shipped last month.
e ACCORDING to the report Of the DirectC
of the Mint, the total coinage of all ou
mints for the year ending June Both, las
was 80, ,19l, ,778 pieces, worth S43, ,853, ,7O}
oI AT Mount Washington Monday tn
70 velocity of the wind was the greatest eve
- known-15G miles an hour, and tn
; Thermometer stood at a degrees belo
. zero.
EDWARD j. BERKENsTosE, a justiC
!, Of the peace and extensive cattle raiser,
~ Lebanon, Pa, has failed for $50 600, an
&c fed the country, after forgving notes upo
Dr. which he obtained $15, ,000
THE Supreme Court of Iowa decide
ID that mortgage-lien presumptively exis
t as long as the debt is unpaid, whatevt
let changes the note secured may underg
r whether by assignment or renewal.
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