The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-08-12

has been found in Franklin ana
EilSer n" 'nt;es Tenn. The quartz is said
rion cg :I,r in every description to the
n. past YEAR, but two persons
Dar,n.s, u" within the borough limits of
re dleu This in population of 800,
l,s, ,rsp,markably light bill OF mortality
- ,,mber of pensioners on the rolls
The nnl% n'I'D y,s 22S. .O34, a decrease of 4, :
rne oO' the wear. The money paid is
a. i0l 0oo less the past year than the year
b fore. =,
.ot, will have this year the best and
, ln4'I crop of potatoes for many years
5css Of Western New York, notwith-
pc cru ClUP tbc rayages. of the beetle, will be
SIIy up to the average
r,,,.o's hog in Chester county which
".'o onnles off the trees in its owners
! IH. harJ when there happens to be none on
z " r,ronnd ready for him. After this, who
N cav that four-legged animals do not
nason?
nnr;ro the past week twelve commercial
ns If Montreal have been obliged to
IN snecial arrangements with their
T;.ors TO enable them TO secure an
.,ns;op of time to meet their engage
aents
A. o98 900 postal cards were issued dur
tbe month of July on the requisition
2nostmasters. This is the largest number
.dr issued in any one month before. 1t is
st;mated that nearly 115,000,000 cards
siIl be used during this year.
New crop Louisiana rice has made its
.rpearancc in market. The prospects of
he l incoming crop are reported to be very
f,yorable, and unless some unforeseen acci-
,cnf happens in harvesting there will be a
llrrc increase in the yield.
II is remarkable fact that, while not
Duc exPrcsident is living, the wives of five
s,rthem survive-Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Fillmore,
Mrs Tayler, Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs John
SON. Of these ladies', one is insane and
.,nother at the point of death.
4 kentucky farmer has horse which
has pair of protuberances, like real horns,
about an inch long, growing upon his fore
|head. The horns began to grow when the
horse was about a year old, and promise to
|bc much longer.
There is horse at Jackson Mich, that
is ffy-onc years old. He was foalcd in
Clarence, Erie county, n. y. in 1924, and
his name is Romp He hasn't single puff
or windgall on his legs, and does good
days work every day.
On Saturday last five car loads of wheat
was shipped from Baltimore, consigned to
Ohio. The movement Of grain from Eas-
tern ports Westward is quite an anomaly,
and shows what damage has been done by
the recent floods in Ohio valley and vicinity
George Herring, of Greenwich township,
Berks county, raised potato of the Early
Rose variety, this season, which measured
one foot FIVE and half inches in length
and eleven and one-half inches in circum-
ference. 1t was taken from stalk to
which forty smaller tubers were attached.
The United States coast survey service
are erecting a signal tower on the Lehigh
three miles south of Allentown,
for the purpose Of aiding in a system of
angles inland, in order to make the coast
survey complete under the principles it is
now being conducted upon, and not for
weather signal
A fourteen-year-old girl in Sandy Hill,
\. Y, eloped with school boy, got mar
ried, and returned home with him to be
forgiven. She was soundly spanked by her
mother and the husband on his way out of
the house was kicked eighteen times by
her father. They had never read any
thing like that in novels.
\ gentleman living at Slatedale. Lehigh
county, one morning last week gave two
hne hogs some potato vines which were
.ull of potato bugs, not thinking that they
would be harmed by them. The hogs eat
reely of the vines, and in the afternoon
10Th died. 1t is supposed the bugs poisoned
hem, as no Paris green had been used on
.he vines.
The first suit brought in New York against
ne Canal Ring, being that of the State rs.
James ID. Lord to compel him to refund
100000 drawn from the State Treasury, ac-
'ordlng to Gov. Tilden, without authority
II law, has been decided by Judge West
brook in favor of Lord. Either Tilden was
ylng, in his allegations of fraud in this and
;lmIlar cases, or the courts are on the side
# fraud. To which conclusion shall we
come?
They are having hard times in Canada,
iue probably to the depression in trade the
World over. Failures and temporary sus-
tensions have been reported from nearly
Ill the large towns and cities of the Domin-
on. In Montreal alone during the past
week twelve firms have been obliged to ask
extensions from their creditors. These
houses are considered good for all they owe,
'ut nave been unable to realize upon their
,SSetS. The damage to crops by recent
hoods will not better the Canadian money
markets