The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-06-03


An Indiana ass the other day shot $500
horse because it would not come to him
when he called.
News from all over Arkansas is to the
effect that the prospect for fine wheat
crop was never better.
The total number of hogs packed during
the last twenty-five years is, in round num-
bers, 74,00O,000.
Venango county leads off with the first
camp meeting this year, commencing June
16, in Rockland township.
The returns of dry goods imports at
New York for May show larger move
ment than was anticipated.
One of the RICHEST deposits of camel
coal in this country has just been discovered
near Bay City, Michigan.
Indiana is said to have the largest pub
lie school fund of any State in the Union,
amounting to over s8,000,0O0.
Boston's imports since the first of Janu-
ary have been more than a million and-a-
half larger than for the same season of last
year.
The Reading Eagle says there are four
thousand cats in that city, and accuses poor
pussy of being u spreader of infectious
diseases.
Henry Snyder, who confeses himself the
murderer Of Monroe Snyder, has been in
dicted for the crime in a Northampton
county court.
Lavinia Peak, well-known colored resi-
dent of South Chester, died on Thursday
morning. She had attained the remarka-
bic age of 116.
Not so bad, after all. The aggregate
value of the new buildings in course of
erection in New York city is nearly two
million dollars.
The annual reunion and excursion of the
Pennsylvania Editorial Association will
take place at Bedford Springs on the 22d,
23d and 24th Of June.
The mysteries and miseries of a great
city. Since the first Of May the bodies of
eleven unknown persons have been taken
from the rivers in New York.
A new use for discarded oyster and fruit
cans has been found, by fastening them up
in the trees as houses for the birds, who
gladly accept them for their summer homes
4 Wisconsin Judge has decided that
husband is no relation to his wife. Then
he can be no relation to his mother-in law
At a recent sale of the assets of the Bank
of Louisiana 81 ,060,0 900 of old State and
Confederate war bonds sold at S2S5 for the
lot.
On Sunday afternoon last young man
named Mowry, who resided with his
parents near Jenner X Roads, Somerset
county, was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed, the horse he was riding at
tho time meeting with the same fate. 1t
appears that he had attended church service
in the village named, and just before the
storm concluded to ride home. He was
caught in the rain before proceeding very
far, and flash of lightning descended
which put an end to his existence.
1t costs something to attend fashion
able church in our large cities. One of
tho Nov TUI Journals lately contained a
statement regarding the cost OF church-go-
mo m that CITY, Jt.zeeuls that, t,tba-"piae
- of q siugle pew m some Of the churches ex
eeeds the rental Jf q small house, and tha
, lhven the cost IF single sitting Is sometime
D o poor uan came afford In enc chJrcl
Uhe better pews rent for as much as 81
i 200. When it is borne in mind how mucI
more good might be accomplished by th
$ use of this money-in charitable dispense
tions, missionary enterprises, distribute
S of religious literature-the folly of wastin
so much money for seats in fashionabl
u churches becomes apparent.
c Many acts of hcroism were performe
S during the late terrible fire at Osceola
this State. A young man named E. i
l. Beck heard that a woman who had jus
been confined was lying helpless in shant
:. in the woods, across the creek from Mo
hannon Mills. The mill had caught fiji
|: and was burning fercely. There was
b narrow passage leading to the woods b
n tween the mill and pool where the log
# were stored. The legs were burning eve
/ while they foated in the water. - De Becl
. with four or five others, started over tn
passage through the flames and smok
d reached the woman's house, and putin
:. herself and her children on an old sof
If carried them safely out on their shoulder
De Beck's eyes were severely burned.
u The Chicago Tribune regards the THU
D term resolution of our State Convention
well-expressed that it republishes it al
- adds:
T. We believe that this expresses the sent
ment of ninty-nine out of every one hu
drcd citizens who vote the Republic;
i ticket. 1t is in no sense directed again
H. H. General Grant, who was heartily indors
y by the same convention which adopted
Il Il General Grants public services, and
~ successful administration of the Cover