The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-01-07
NO. 80.
NJ ISCELL A NEOUS.


Europe from New York on Thursday last.
Peter Herdic, of NiIiarsport, has given
81 900 toward the building of home for
the friendless in that city.
Philadelphia is said to be the great mar
ket for catfish. Large quantities are
shipped thither from Maryland.
J. Lenthal Sheffield, bookeeper for an
insurance firm in Wilkesbarre, went off the
other day, and SO did $500 of his employ
ers' cash.
The Bethlehem Iron Company machine
shops are running double time The Legigh
Shovel Works will also run full time through
the winter
In ten years no less thar 12,000,000
acres of timber have been cut down and
burned over in order to reudcd land fit for
cultivation.
During the past year eighty,two new
Lutheran churches have been built in the
United States, costing all the way from
81 600 to Sl25 900 each,
A despatch from Mexico states that the
Mormons are about to found colonies in
that country. with a view Of cmigrating en-
masse from Utah.
Some money. The Grown Point and
Belcher gold mines of California have
yielded forty-six million dollars within the
last four years.
The total receipts of grain at seaboard
ports from January to December 5, this
year, exceeded those of S73 by over fifteen
million bushels.
4 farmer in the vicinity Of Hamburg
poisoned some rats in his cellar and found
among them one rat as white as snow-a
decided curiosity.
From 1913 to 1873 the gold mines Of
California yielded $3.50 100000 Other
States and Territories S255;7 $50; 900 Total,
81 ,2+0,750,000.
A York constable, Weutzel Seak by
name, went to a ball in Lancaster on Christ
mas eve, and was set on by crowd Of
rowdies and beaten nearly to death.
Office seekers must be scarce in New
Zealand. a late advertisement in local
paper calls for man to fill public office,
the salary Of which is 81 500 per year, in
gold.
In 1851 Reading, Pa, contained 130
dwelling houses, 100 families and 378 in
habitants, though two years before it existed
in name only, having but two or three
houses.
Two boys named Ulrich and Buchanan,
while skating on the river at Lewistown
on the 10th inst, broke through and were
drowned. The bodies hare not been re-
covered.
Fraudulent contractors have little mercy
shown them in China One was recently,
convicted Of cheating by means of false es-
timates and was punished by having his
head cut off
A gentleman advertised for wife and
received answers from eighteen hundred
and ninety seven husbands, saying he could
have theirs. This is given as an illustra-
tion of the value of advertising
Commissioner Douglass estimates that
the amount of tax paid into the Treasury
by the national banks for the year 1874,
closing, will aggregate S9,000,000 which
is S 800 600 more than was collected last
year
The jury appointed by the Court of
Common Pleas of Philadelphia to examine
and report upon the subject Of opening
streets through Girard College grounds,
has reported against the project. This set
ties the question.
Philadelphia sparrows have met their
match at last in caterpillar with hairs so
stiff and bristly that they stick crosswise in
the little creatures gulets, and send them
hopping and screechine about like Il man
with a tishbone in his throat
The commission appointed to inquire In
to the mental condition of Heidenblut, the
convicted Philadelphia murderer, has re-
ported him sane, and Governor Hartranft
has signed his death warrant. Heidenblut
will be hung January 10Th.
Constable Karcher, of Pottsville, claims
that he has arrested twenty murderers dur
ing the last three years, but states that not
IA single one of them has been executed.
He blames the bulk Of crimes in the Schuyl-
kill district upon the Molly Maguires.
If preparation for making a given claim
is any evidence that the claim itself will be
made, then the demand for pay for the
emancipated slaves Is pretty sure, sooner
or later, to come. In Maryland as well as
III other ex-slave States, agents are even
now engaged in endeavoring to purchase
certificates Of ownership of slave property.
The gilded aristocracy of New York
have devised means of making even death
fashionable. The only daughter of wealthy
parents, belle in society, beautiful and
good, died suddenly of heart disease. Such
waste OF clothes which the envious world
had never seen 1t was too bad, and
something must be done. The pretty corpse
was rugged out in white satins aud laees
looped with diamonds, bejewelled with the
barharic extravaganza of an Oriental despot,
hands encased in six button kid gloves, and
the full uniform of the salon With music
and refreshments the exhibition was pre-
pared for the ruests. who came in answer