The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-04
Easter occurs on March 95.,

And now Germany is sufferiD, A.
dustrial depression and complicatior, we III
of a terrible war. ''n Con,
Helena has been formally decI,roa
capital of Montana, and the lone .t eo the
with Virginia City is at an end struggle
In the woods of Kansas wild hon.
in the greatest profusion, said to Fo eIoT
good quality as any that are proJnoo5'i y S
cultivation. 'u ey
Letters destined for Canada r;n
charged with three cents single r"tI "ui be
stead of six cents, the present charas 81 b H.
payment is obligatory. o. ''e-
The debt of the city of Wilkes P.
s185, 794.03 and its assets ipcIr5;nreH Il
estate, uncollected taxes, cash, &c S,9S 5Cal
32464 '-OO
The destitution in New York c;ty ;..,
to be appalling. Never in the bistar~ % s'll
that city has there been such copsts:,Iv u
increasing army Of homeless, unemTior:i
ones.
New York city has 3O4 public school.
with 3,039 teachers, and an aggregst. &C.
251 ,545 pupils receiving instruction CT TS VI
sanitary accommodations afforded are how
ever, totally inadequate
The pruning knife is being freely n,oa
in the Treasury Department. Last wal,
125 assistant weighers were discb,r,.3
from the New York Custom Housa H..
affecting saving Of 100000 year ~
An Oshkosh woman gave birth to fr,
children last week When her husbsr5
protested, she whimpered out "Sbadr.cb
you know how these reaper accidents ara
reducing the population Of Wisconsin"
Mrs Kate E Clark, recently seanstros.
in the family Of Senator Stewart. at Wash
iDgton, was arrested at Baltimore on Mon
day, charged with the robbery Of Mrs
Stewart, on Saturday, Of bonds, diamonds
laces, &C., valued at Sc, 800.
The new style Of weather bulletins
Cheyenne-Bellyache slightly on the in.
crease at this station. Wind due west
Display paragoric flag at Omaha, and or.
der a cessation og pound cake and boned
turkey for two days at Chicago and st.
Louis
The highest average net produce Der
COW, reported by the New York factories
this season, was $58.45, and the lowest S26.
This was for six months The first means
profit and the last loss The difference !,
attributable to the kind Of stock and the
care given them.
In Japan, wheat is sown in November
in drills sixteen inches apart, one and .
quarter bushels of seed 70 the acre. In
three or four weeks row of peas, turnips,
onions, cabbage, or some other kind of yc-
getable, is planted between the drills, and
then the wheat is regularly hoed and irriga-
| ted with the vegetables.
| In the Bank Of France they have 60: .
| brick for which they paid ,O00 francs Il
specie. It was taken from the ruins Of a
| burned house, and the image and figures Of
note for 1000 francs are burned On the
surface, transferred by the heat from areal
note. The brick the hank redeemed on
presentation, as if it were the note Itself
An unsuDg heroine Widow Phia
Lambert, of West Georgia Vt, fftv-siZ
years old, has Cor fifteen years supported
eight children by laying stone wall hayast-
ing, and other heavy farm work, and has
not only made herself owner Of house
and few acres Of land, bQ; has given
her children good education.
| The detectives searching for Charlie Ross
expended more than $40 ,O00- Commission
| ers have searched from ocean TO ocean and
across printing anj, obotographiHs have
cost s8, 600 !; a corps % clerks have been eI,
ployed in the correspondence ABOUT the W !
200 bands Of syPsies have been searcEea
one stray boy has been found and taken
home to his mourning parents 600 ChafA1
ROSES have been reported; and al lea'.
800, 900 persons at enc time or another hare
been on the search.
The Kansas Farmer gives the ezp3,
rience of good farmer who had tried toed,
ing hogs on wheat rs well as corn He sad
that when wheat was cheap he found /;
profitable to feed his hogs on it. He to5l
100 hogs, and put fifty in pens and fed corn,
and fifty fed wheat, with the following re,
suit: The fifty with corn made eleven
pounds per bushel, the fifty with vhe1i
made seventeen pounds Of good soIId pom
per bushel of wheat. The wheat w;
ground like meal, boiling water PouI'1
over it, and then let stand forty-two hours
Nine and one half million acres OF PGD,
! lie land have been sold, the past year, 10.
S2,469,938. This is nearly four m!!DoI
acres less than was sold in 1873. A0ol,
one million acres have been taken by ,CLs rLs
law to encourage the planting of trees ! l ~ sf
rapid destruction of forests IS matte! y.
deep public concern, and it is encouFl5.r5 :i,r3
to see so much land taken up by Sts'...
under the wise provision to promote ..r,, io.,,
culture. That law may solve the luE IE,,l
tant problem concerning timber anu WV
J in the West.