The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-03-18

Hot lemonade is claimed to be the best
known remedy for cold
The woolhat factories of Reading will
suspend operations on April IL.
Sixty-two inches of snow in Anthony
township, Lycoming county, this winter
A German infdel was refused his ma
turalization papers in Philadelphia last
week.
Kansas promises soon to produce silk at
lower figures than any other country in the
world
One Reading man has paid, since
February 7th, nearly $4,000 tax on
whiskey.
1t is rumored that Tweed's lawyers are
confident of his release before the fall
primaries are held.
The Financial Chronicle estimates that
there is uow over S300,000,00 of specie
in the United States.
George Wheeler colored, was hanged at
Easton, Talbot county, Md, on Friday for
the murder of Mrs. Whitman in July last.
1t is not generally known that the butter
crop of the United States is now greater in
value than the wheat crop. Yet such is
the fact
Joshua Griffin, colored, was hanged near
Belair, Md, on Friday, far the murder of
Miss Susan Taylor, near Aberdeen, Har-
ford county, in October last.
The saucy Brooklyn Argus believes if
Jay Gould could run railway train to
Heaven, he'd take Brooklyn piety as 4
head light for the locomotive.
There were 116 births and 43 deaths
in Allentown, during the months of Jan
uary and February. The population of
that enterprising city is increasing.
A. Mrs. Evans, residing in Seymour,
Connecticut on Monday, eat the throats
of her two children, aged three and six
years, and then cut her own throat
A number of buildings in Allentown are
cracking, owing, it is supposed, to the set
Ting OF the foundations In PottsviIIc the
frost has been raising the foundations.
Young man, go East, Good farms m
Aroostook county, Maine, may be bought
Of the State at ffy cents an acre, payment
to be made in labor on the public high
ways.
Mr., Joseph Walker, manager Of tho
Opera House in Scranton, was the lucky
holder of ticket in the Kentucky lottery
scheme which has drawn the sum of So
50f.
1t is rumored that CARL SchurE VIII prac-
tice law in New York, and that he has
ALREADY been engaged as coanscl Of the
Hamburg Steamship COmpay, at 100000
ANNUALLY.
New jersey has Just passed law inpos-
ing fine Of five thousand dollars and i'm
prisoumeat for term Of one year upon
any person who shall transfer his property
to avoid taxes
From February to March I there was
an increase of fifty distTIeries with daily !
capacity of 95 OBS gallons. There are 406 |
distilleries in all, with q total capacity of
295, SIS gallons.
Mrs. Mason D. Custard, of Egypt Mills,
Pike county, died at her late residence
Wednesday evening Of last week. De
ceased was the largest woman in the coun-
ty, her weight being upwards of300 pounds
All the scientists of Europe are rushing
to Paris to see man whose nose took
sudden start and grew half an inch longer.
Such is the desire of humanity to see
man who nose more than than ANYBODY
else.
Joseph Augustine, of Eastyille, Clinton.
county, is the champion shaver, not off
notes, but of shingles He shaved eight
hundred singles in nine hours, or an aver
age of one shingle in forty and half sec
onds
At the annual meeting of the Lchigh
Coal and Navigation company it was shown
that the receipts of the year were ST ,932,-
32l deducting the expenses this leaves 4
balance Of Stl5,265 to the credit of the
dividend fun.
A Susquehanna county lawyer drew a
writ, the other day, which a deputy
sheriff went to serve, and found the party
had been dead for week or two. The
officer returned the paper indorsed, "Pres
ent place of abode unknown"
A finely dressed lady who slipped and
fell the other day, and the boot-back who
assisted her to her feet inquired. Did YOU
break any bones madam p No [ guess not
she replied but am just as mad as if |
had broken dozen of en-.
A Montana editor bemoans the calamities
of 1874, in the following touching strain
"tirt. that Beecher business, then the
then the Democratic victories,
and now an increased tax on whiskev
" nat Is this poor country coming to?
a rather curious arbitration came off at
Selinsgroye last week-the parties being
Henry Walter aud Eli Hartman, and the
contention bond of 81 ,000, which the
la tan bod rrs,s 80.