The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-08-19
Yermont's S State debt-O.

brookiyn drahk z0o'ooo barrels larger
last year.
Duncan, Sherman & Co.'S assets aro 60
S38, ,963'53. Liabilities, s4,91O, 1860
The wwhortleberry crop in Ohio d;
season is said to be one of the largest owns AVIS
known.
The population of jersey City is es,;m.
ted at 10000, and that of Hudson CONT
100000.
a Mormon church was organized ..
Audubon, Minnesota, last week, w;t% AZ
twelve members.
Its coming. They had a nipping fros.
in Vermont the other night, and anotL"r
in Northern Indiana.
North Carolina has very considerablo
trade in dried blackberries. Last vaor :.
exported fifteen thousand barrels.
There are 107, $50 members of Grargor.,
lodges in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama
Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee.
A little door boy, while at play W..
struck by the fy-wheel of rolling mill in
Scranton on Friday and instantly killed.
The city of Minnesota, has population
of 10, ,743, and is the third city in the Stato
The growth in five years has been 1851
The fatness of the earth. An Iov,
farmer has eighty acres of corn that stand
sixteen feet high and will average one hun,
dred bushels to the acre.
Scranton has colored barber who
wouldn't shave colored gentleman. A
fight ensued, and both parties have been
bound over to answer at next court.
The prospects of Clarion county, Pa
are cheerful. The oil industry is doipc
well, and two good wells, producing from
twenty to twenty-five barrels per diem
have recently struck.
The bullion yield of Colorado for the
half year ending June Both is estimated at
So, 800. In most cases the figures have
been obtained from mines and the rcduc-
ton works, and can therefore be relied
upon.
y tinplate mandatory has Just been
started at Pittsburg, and new industry
| thereby inaugurated. Hitherto the art
Gle has always been imported, but now it
has been found possible to make the goods
just as cheaply at home.
a Mauch Chunk, Pa, despatch says the
connecting rod on the engine of passenger
train No. 3, broke yesterday, and frag-
mcnt broke into the cabin of the engine.
instantly killing n l.. Lee, of Baltimore,
who was sitting there.
Philadelphia this year stands at the head
of the list of United States ports, SO far as
the molasses trade is concerned. New
York was the first last year, but for six
months of 1875, has %, 1000 hogsheads less
than came to the Delaware metropolis.
Some months ago an Oregon man named
his girl baby after Queen Victoria, and
wrote to the Queen to that effect She didn't
seem to care cent, and he changed the
child's name to SAL and went out and
pounded the first Englishman he met.
A father fearing an earthquake in the
region of his home, sent his two sons to a
distant friends until the peril should lie
over. \ few weeks after the father re-
ceived this letter from his friend "Please
take your boys home and send down the
earthquake"
Another one of those wonderful old ladies
has turned up, this time in Lambcrtvillc,
n. j. She is 81 years old, can see to
thread the finest needle, never having used
spectacles in her life She is nimble on
foot, mind strong, and will, so the account
says, Outwork many of the young ladies Of
| the present age.
A resident of Detroit called at the Cen,
tral Station Saturday to relate the fact that
his wife had run away. "Wcll, we'll try
to arrest her, replied the sergeant, after
hearing the particulars of the case. That
wasn't what [ came for, said the man,
with a disappointed look; II want to have
the detectives keep her on the run p
Thirty-five years ago young PennSyl-
vania .,pawned a blanket to Bcrks county
farmer for So, and took Greclcy's advice to
go out West. He returned last week from
California worth 100000 visited the far
mer and redeemed that blanket, which had
been carefully put away at the time it was
received.
If men arc the salt of the earth, women
are the sugar. Salt is a necessity, sugar
luxury. Vicious men are the saltpetre
hard, stern men, the rock salt, nice family
men the table salt Old maidens are the
brown sugar good natured matrons the
loaf sugar pretty girls the fine pulverizcd
white sugar Pass the sugar, please.
\ house in Bucks county was recently
struck by lightning and large mirror in
one of the rooms was so thoroughly shat
tered that q piece of an inch size could not
be found, the minute particles of glass be-
ing firmly imbedded in the woodwork on
the opposite side of the room. A piano
was also struck but its tone was not in
! iured.