The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-06-03
NO. l..
MISCELL ANEO US.

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This State exports S37 100000 worth
Of petroleum annually.
The citizens Of Philadelphia have given
two millions toward the Centennial
The California gold production for the
first quarter Of this year is S7,700O00
California expects to have three hundred
thousand tons Of wheat for export this
year.
John \. Dachrodt, for more than half a
century resident of Easton, died on the
! 4th inst, at an advanced age.
Three men in Reading have long boards;
one thirty inches in length, one twenty
two, and the other twenty inches
The Spanish Government has paid to
Minister Gushing the entire balance, S35,-
900, due on the Virginius indemnity fund
\ large order from the German Govern
ment for ropes keeps the Elizabcthport, n
j., Steam Cordage Company running day
and night.
Two hundred fresh fedgcd lawyers were
let loose on New York at one fell swoop,
the other day, and Gotham wishes it
hadn't got EN-.
The specie shipments to Europe from
New York Thursday last were $3.50 900,
of which $4,000 were gold coin and the
remainder silver.
The prOtracted cold of the past winter
was very fatal to bees. Full three-fourths
of those kept in some parts of New York
/ State have died.
St Louis has 98,2O6 children between
the ages Of six and sixteen, only 26O00 of
whom attend the public schools This is
a very poor record.
There are seven banks in Berks county
with stock assessed at S910,690. In Leb-
anon county there are six banks with stock
assessed at S500,76O.
Being asked what made him so dirty,
an unwashed street Arabs replav was L
was made as they tell me, Of dust, and
| suppose 1t works out.
Bucks county furnishes S150,OO0 WORTH
Of poultry to the New York markets and
over 100000 worth to the Philadelphia
and Trenton markets.
We now have in the United States thirty;
eight agricultural colleges, with $50 pro.
fessOrs and 3,917 students. Few of the,
graduates, however, become farmers
a correspondent from St. Augustine,
Florida, estimates that 10000 persons
visited Florida this season, spending an
average of 500 each, or S5,OO0,OOO.
1t is estimated that three hundred LIQUOR
saloons have been closed in Newark, \. j.,
since the increase in the license fees and
the strict enforcement Of the excise laws.
Experiments made in Kansas show that
hogs fed with wheat make seventeen
pousiGds- to the bushel and only eleven
pounds to the bushel fed on corn.
Hon. Galusha A Grow has resigned his.
position as President of Texas railroad ON
account of failing health, and returned to-
his home, at Glenwood, Susquehanna Co.
'Only eleven cents for the heathen ~
exclaimed a Georgia colored minister
give it back, brudder Jones-de Lord
nebber heard OBJ dis one horse congrcga-
ton ~
Daniel Banghcr, Esq, of Hydetown,
Crawford county, while out hunting the
other day, caught young woodchuck
which had three perfectly formed heads OH
one body.
Last year there were 1921 brewcrics in
operation in the Union, New York having
$40, and Pennsylvania 346. In all new
England there were only a, Vermont hay
ing none.
Can animals suffer pain p is the latest
question. Stick a pin into a mules hind.
leg and see.-Ec. Sec The individual
who follows the advice here given will not
be able to sec anything for good while,
The fourth annual convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of the diocese
of Central Pennsylvania will begin its ses,
sions i'll Christ Cathedral. Reading, on the,
8th of June. Bishop Howe will preside
When one looks around and sees hun,
dreds of dough heads getting rich doing
nothing, while he is working like slave
for his daily bread, it makes fellow feel as
though the butter Of this world Was spread ~
by step mother.
That ar patch of grounds mem rible,"
said an Omaha man, pointing to grave
all by itself outside the town. Il reckim
you'll know that, stranger, when YOU see it
ag IN, The ockypant of that was the first
man Horrus Greeley ever told to cit West
likewise he was hung for stealin Il
mewl
\ consignment of the best breeds of
English and Scotch live stock, consisting
of lS6 animals, embracing number Of
Ayrshire cattle aud South Down sheen
thirty choice Oxford Downs, one of which.
ram, weighs 800 pounds, twenty Cots
void sheep, seventeen large and six sn