The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-02-11
PETIT JURY -sEcoND WEEK.

PETIT JURY SECOND WEEK.
Barch-Stephen II. Peters, Emery Price,
Eli UT.
Chestnuthil-James Everitt.
/ e. troudsbur9-ComO6oreP Price, Jacob Bus
kirk, Wilson Piersen. Chas. e. Durfee.
Hamilon-Abner Shoemaker. Geo. ?. Hell
Ter, Jacob W. Buts, Joseph Fellencer Peaer
Mosteller. Geo. Erdnsan, Jr, Jabez Kirkhuf
! .Jacksoz-Philip McCluskey John DALEY.
| NJ Sl,sithfeld-George Michael, George w.
Labar, Philip NJ. Peters.
Para2ise-John J. Price.
Price-Thonlas Fish.
!Srrithfsld-M- C. Kautz, John ". Custard
Il David Smith, Charles NJ. Hoffman, Isaac r.
Transue, David Yetter, Manassah Labar.
Stroud-Sydenham Lee, Charles Dennisy
! Henry Desnjs.
.S.rouds6,svg-Benj. Hannss, Rvbest Boys,
James Postens.
I TUnkiaaaocE-Henry Keenhold.
THo. M MeILHANEY, Proth'y.
/ Last month New England lost 81 ,023,
no by fires
The Philadelphia Pslice arrested 2,O53
persons, during January.
/ Mr. Isaac Kupp, CT Union township,
Berks county, has eve that gave birth to
four lambs.
Tbs number of German speaking chill
Edren aSteadJ1g schools in this State IS esti-
mated at $4,000
+ In Womelydosf, Berks county lives
man sixty years old, who has never tasted
fish, flesh OF fowl,
There IS an cid log house standing in
Jamestown which IS enc hundred and
! forty-two years old.
The Baltimore petroleum trade have
large orders for oil to be shipped for
Europe in the next two months
A cheeky business. 4 New York bar
Der claims to have shaved 4 Il ,629 custo-
mers during the last fourteen years.
A few days since four coal trains of one
hundred and fifty cars each passed over
the Lehigh Valley Railroad to Philadel-
phia.
Two brothers and sister in Berks coun-
ty are respectively, six feet four and half
inches, six feet two inches, and six four
inches in hight.
The total value Of the silver and base
coinage at the Philadel phia mint last month
was S462, S55 There was no gold coinage
during that period.
The witty division of the human race in
to three classes-men, women and the
Beecher family-is almost daily vindicatcd
in the great scandal trial.
Miss Way, of Unionvill, Chester coun-
ty found way to put together two quilts
inside Of two years, one containing 1870
pieces and the 2,178 pieces.
Two young men of Sugar Run, Clinton
county, recently ran barefoot race dis
tance of a half mile, for half bushel of
apples. They gained their prize without
freezing their feet.
The other day, in Jersey City, in broad
daylight, with the roar and hustle of life
around it, and pedestrians upon the side
walk brushing against it, corpse stood
leaning against lamp-post unnoticed dur
ing all the morning. The man had been
frozen to death while in a drunken stupor.
The Tamaqua Item tells of German in
that place who, on wager, ate one hund-
red and fifty frozen oysters, and still lives.
The Carlisle Herald supplements this
story with another, about a colored man
getting away with" thirteen bowls of
mush and milk, at festival in that place.
The bowl held quart
The Oxford Prees says that William
Hughes, of Londongrove, Chester county,
raised the past season on three and five
sixth acres of land, three hundred and
eighty-four bushels of corn The ground
was lined and ploughed the fall before, and
no other fertilizer was used. The corn
was planted "a by 4 feet, and two stalks
in hill.
There are connected with the State arse
nal, at Harrisburg, twenty-six cannon, 15,,
Fl 277 muskets and rifles, 1910, pistols and
853 sabres and artillery swords. Accord
4 ing to the report of the Adjutant Genera
there are 347, ,475 persons in Pennsylvania
subject to military duty, 9,999 of whom
belong to the National Guard. The mum
Der of commissioned officers is 733.
This is the way they do it up in the
state of Greene, according to the Way
nesburg Republican There is a woman
} In the west end of the county who car
7 stand in half bushel measure and should
) er four bushels of wheat in wool sack
She offers to bet five dollars that she car
throw down any man in Aleppo township
: Another woman in the same townshi,
tackled two hundred pound man in ohurcl
short time since, In the presence of a larg
congregation, because the man claimed I,
, be Universalist, and made him beg 70