The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-03-25

So 25 Tanning mill 50. VIM. MosteNer,
auctioneer. Attendance large.
The negroes in Tennessee are focking
Kansas in bands of five hundred at time.
Sensible negroes, those.
A Delaware county man has a twenty
four pound cat, which he claims is the
largest tabby in the State.
Philadelphians can supply their tables
with asparagus, provided they are willing
to pay 81 % per bunch for it.
DR.. Charles c. Jennings, one of the old
est residents of Easton, died on Tuesday,
of last week, aged seventy years.
Five dollars, conscience money, were
received at the Treasury on Friday from
"Restitution,' at Newark, n. j.
Hon. Charles Albright was serenaded
by his friends on his return to Mauch
Chunk from Washington, last week.
The Yadkin river in the late freshet was
within ten feet of the North Carolina Rail
road bridge, forty feet above its usual level.
''Is there any man in this town named
Afternoon ?' inquired Mississippi Post
master, as he held up a letter directed 'P.
NJ"
The death of Charles w. Mixsell, of
Easton, on Monday, 18th inst, has been
announced. His wife, an aged lady,
survived him but twenty y-four hours.
The California wheat crop is splendid.
A large average yield is secure; but if
copious rains come within two weeks, there
will be the the largest harvest ever known.
Miss Dow, of Pulaski, New York, who
weighs 800 pounds, recently fell down
stairs. She dislocated her shoulder, but
none of the timbers of the house were
broken.
A most novel law case has just been
started in Fort Valley, GA. A man is sue
ing bar-keeper for selling him whisky
'that would tumble a mule at the distance
of fifty yards.
A Troy girl is in a quandary. Having
saved few dollars from her hard earnings,
she cannot decide whether to buy a new
hat or bound volume of Tilton-B Beecher
testimony.
General Gallagher, of Westmoreland
county, is spoken of very favorably by the
Tribune and Herald, of Greensburg, as a
candidate for State Treasurer on the Re
publican ticket
Despite the proverb concerning whistling
girls and growing hens, young lady of
Dubuque whistles SO swoetly that she has
been offered 800 week to travel and ex-
hibit her accomplishment.
The most ridiculous claim presented to
the Congress just ended was that set up
by physician, who wanted S150000 for
extracting 5000 corns from the feet of
soldiers during the war, at five dollars
each.
The wise man saith in his heart "Verily
[ will clear the snow from my walk, perad-
venture it may not become sloppy" But
the fool and the sluggard tucketh his pants
into his boot tops and remarketh: Letter
melt"
The Presbyterians in Philadelphia and
other Eastern cities have consolidated capi-
tai and gone into the seaside resort business
They have purchased a tract of land at
Cape May, and are about to erect a large
hotel.
William j. Sharkey, the escaped murderer
who left Havana recently, has been arrested
in Santiago de Cuba He will either be
banished from that place or brought back
to Havana, and then returned to the United
States.
A Milwaukee man is bent on going to
sea. He has been reading the Enoch
Arden class of stories till his soul is fired
with an ambition to be wrecked and come
home and find his wife married to some
other fellow.
"She is perfect Amazon" said a pupil
in one our schools of his teacher yesterday
to a companion. eyes" said the other,
who was better versed is geography than
history, 81 noticed she had an awful big
mouth. "-Bridgeport Farmer.
They tell us that Gas soon as the trial is
over Mr.. Beecher proposes to seek recrea-
ton in few months travel" And the
Courier Journal says He will need it
badly, the poor man, in the year 1900, if
they get through with half the witness at
that time.
In Missouri wolfscalps are received in
payment of taxes, and the other day a
Legislative committee was appointed to
burn the scalps thus received and accumu-
lated during two years past, there being
about six thousand dollars worth, at five
dollars head.
Twelve special policemen from Philadel-
phia have been assigned to duty in Carbon
county, Pa, to protect the men and pro-
perty of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal
Company. The police is now believed to
be sufficiently large to hold in check the
turbulent Molly Maguires