The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-04-08


meetinc at Harrisburg on May 4. The
eases of four murderers will occupy atten-
ton.
aThere that explains where my clothes
line went to p exclaimed an Iowa woman
as she found her husband hanging IN the
stable.
The grasshoppers in the Western States
are around the railway stations these warm
spring mornings, to sec who comes TO pur-
chase seed wheat.
Everybody is now waiting impaticntly
for some new greensbacks, to see what Mr..
News signature is like. 1t can never
equal Spinner's.
1t is no harm to shoot cat in Yer
mont, but if you happen to miss the cat
and kill boy, the authorities make an
awful fuss over it.
A dealer in Erie advertises "Carocene
oil onnly 15 cents per gallon" and another
a few doors above announces ''caned fruit,
as one of his articles in trade.
An oak tree in Curtin township, Centre
county, was the winter home Of bear with
two cubs, several foxes, and litter OF
skunks.
/. A pair of abortionists are to be hung in
Canada next June. Some prompt work OF
this kind on our side of the border would
not come amiss.
! Of the four thousand lawyers in New
York city about five hundred do all the
business, and their incomes run all the way
from starvation point to 100000.
The Republicans of Fayette county have
selected their delegates to the Republican
State Convention, and instructed them to
!, vote for the denomination Of Governor
Hartranft.
And now those indefatigablc Californians
are going into the cultivation Of the sumac
tree, the product of which is used for tan
ming, and, when prepared, brings from SIC
to S130 a ton.
BY the first of July some five thousand
: men will be engaged alone on the Memoir
ial Hall of the Centennial building, all OF
whom will be required to work fourteen
hours day.
< Murfreesboro', Tennessee, boasts OF re-
:, marbable curiosity, in the shape of a horse
4 with a well-deyelOped, natural moustache.
: 1t is not at all unusual, however, to find
asses thus lowered.
! 4 boy in Eddyville, Iowa, lately found
eco nNn l,;e f,+ba,.'c horn aO1 thnrf
was great rejoicing in the family until II
was discovered that the cash was all counter,
= felt, aud very bad counterfeit at that.
4 Most of the Boston banks came down q
. half of one per cent. in their semi-annua
: April dividends, making a reduction o.
one per cent. a year-a direct evidence o
the general dullness of money and trade.
d A Saltwater man has just cut down q
r remarkably large oak tree. 1t measured
: over four feet across the stumps. 1t con
tains 2451 feet of timber, round measure
.e 1t is thought to be the largest white oal
+ in that section.
r Twenty applications for national bank
were received during last week, amount
d ing to S1,170,000, of which 81 ,400,00t
a was from the Eastern and Middle States
" $50 900 from the Southern, and $3.50, ,00t
. from the Western States.
Talking about those awful corsets the
say that the lady who was shot by he
lover in Washington recently will probabl
recover, as one Of her corset stcels re
+" ceiyed the main force of the pistol ball, an
thus saved her life.
- A little girl asked minister: I'D
you think my father will go to heaven ?
lie why, yes, my child Why do 70
ask ?" 0Well, because if he don't have hi
" own way there, he won't stay long, | wa
: thinking"
to A butcher named Gaber committed su
eide in Hazleton, Sunday, by blowing h
u brains out with shotgun. He placed I'll
gun between his legs, with the muzzle
his head, and pulled the trigger with
OF stick, blowing his head to pieces.
The trial of Eckley B. Farron as an a
IN , complice in the murder of Neal McBrid
on the night of February ii, 1874, W,
ms concluded at Mauch Chunk on TuesdG
h of last week The jury retired for thr,
minutes, and returned verdict of n
re guilty.
on Wilkesbarre, we are sorry to say,
gradually settling in the quicksands tn
n underlie it. According to computati(
D. made by the Record cfthe Times in Il
brief period of eight million years the ci
will sink below the surface of the earth
to We learn from Reading paper tn
Bishop Howe, DR.. Coppee and the Re
: w. B. Morrow, of Easton, met at that CT
Is few days ago and matured plans for Il
We establishment of a diocesan school for boy
They have bought the Denninger mansi
me and estate in Reading for the purpose