The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-06-24

case going to the jury this week The
great conundrum is, what will they do with
it?
The Asiatic cholera has made its appear
ance on the United States steamer Saco,
on the Asiatic station, and out Of five cases
four Of them terminated fatally.
A stock company is to be organized for
the purpose of starting new glass works
in Carbon county, Pa. The protector is a
Texan, and claims to be the inventor of
patent system of glass blowing.
Extensive arrangements are being made
in various parts of the country for outdoor
preaching this summer That's right If
the devil will not go to the churches, the
churches should so to the devil
French exports for the first four months
of this year show an increase of l49, 900, 900
francs over the corresponding period in
1875. The total imports were $4,000, 900
less. The customs revenue increased 15,-
100000 francs.
A number of fancy horses were sold in
New York the other day. The prices were
so low that they were almost given away
Silkstocking, who won the Kentucky stakes
in 1872, brought $110, and Attila, winner
of the Travers stakes $3.50.
Judge jerks, in late announcement in
the Clarion county court, added justice to
Jurisprudence when he told parties obtain
ing license to sell liquor that on proof of
the sale of drugged or impure liquor their
licenses would be revoked.
1t seems that folks in the olden time
knew how to counterfeit A Waikiki, New
York, man recently plowed up, on the
Shawangunk mountains, seventeen coins
dated 1870, and thirteen dated 1866, but
none of them were Of genuine silver.
There's moral taught by the following
which needs to be learned by
many fathers: Said little four year old,
"Mother, father won't be in heaven with
us-will he ?" "Why, my child ?" BE
cause he can't leave the store"
The County Commissioners of Luzerne
County, have three carpet looms running
in the county prison on custom work.
Eleven hundred yards Of carpet were
woven during the month of April. Cash
received for weaving and carpets slod last
months, 1888 90.
Strawberries are selling for three cents
a quart at Norfolk, Va, and growers allow
people to pick all they choose, as it costs
them three cents quart to pick the fruit,
and consequently there is nothing left out
Of ba to %
packing and shipping.
1t may be interesting to know that the
people Of this country consumed last year,
l 1,636,33 pounds of arsenic, 7S9,777
pounds of camphor, 1868 pounds Of
jalap, 1922 pounds of ipecac, 297213
pounds of nux vomica, and S499, ,399 worth
Of vaccine virus, all Of which was imported.
South jersey, Maryland and Delaware
are over run with the potato bug: The
entire crop Of early potatoes is used up. In
some localities farmers are employing help
to exterminate them, and are paying 20
cents quart for the bugs. In Maryland
they are using refuse tobacco with gratify-
ing success. This does not kill the bug,
but they pack their valises Immediately,
and make for the nearest railroad station.
A copy of the edition of the Bible, prin-
ted by Gutenberg, at Mayence, between
1850 and 1856, was discovered last autumn
in the vestry of the Church of Klein
Bautzen, in Saxony. 1t is printed partly
on paper, partly on parchment. 1t was
presented to the church in 1877, and had
lain nearly two hundred years among the
psalm books and Bibles, being mistaken for
manuscript Bible 1t has been purchased
for about $3.50 by an English collector.
The Germantown Telegraph says: "Hun-
dreds of children have fallen victims to
scarlet fever during the past three months
Concerning the treatment of this disease,
an eminent physician says that he does not
fail in effecting cure more than once in a
hundred cases, by giving the patient warm
lemonade with gum arabic dissolved in it.
A cloth wrung out should be renewed as
often as it becomes cool. To this simple
treatment the most obstinate cases seldom
fail to succumb"
An aged gentleman, evidently stagger-
ing under a mental complication of Joshua
Lear, and Second Adventism, last Tuesday
made seven trips around Kansas City,
seated upon milk-white steed, and cloth
ed in raiment which had been dyed in
blood-a demonstration intended as pre-
liminary feature of the assumption by a
momentarily-expected king of political
power in Missouri, and which created the
widest excitement among the small boys
Of the town. When the Kansas City church
bells drove their sound-waves through the
grasshoppery air, and his liege came not, it
is telegraphed that the feelings of the dis
honored prophet were marked below cost.
and that he said unto the publican with
whom he Jared that his spirit was vexed,
and that he desired to die.
Millionaire Lick, of San Francisco. has
had great deal of trouble out of his phil
anthropy. As soon as his first and munif-
cent deed was executed, he was beset by a