The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-07-15

N''N "AANs'S WI Al Il Oii NcohbJ piOhi-
ises to be the heaviest had in fifteen years
Connecticut's hay crop will amount to
5S7 900 tons, worth from seven to eight
million dollars.
The wheat harvest on the eastern shore
of Maryland is over, and portion of the
new crop was sent to market last week
During the past year there were received
at New York, 1,900,979 cheese, and Of
this vast number 1,701, 328 were expor-
ted.
A Scranton attorney brought dozen
collins the other day at Sheriff7s sale at
Hyde Park, and thought it good specula-
ton.
The proprietor of hotel in Corning,
n. Y, has had to pay $4,000 and costs to
a married woman of that place, for selling
liquor to her husband.
The "reform" movement among the
New York Democracy is headed by Ben.
Wood, a policy dealer, and John Morris
sey, professional gambler.
When conductor on Syracuse car
shouted 'Ruggles street, man who was
doing in the Garner started up and said
"Ruggles treat Where's Ruggles p
Show me Ruggles quick p
1t is in vain to stick your finger in the
water, and, pulling it out, look for hole
and equally vain to suppose that, however
large space you occupy, the world will
miss you when you have passed on.
A special dispatch to the Cincinnati
Times from indianapolis, says that Robert
Dale Owen, the distinguished scientist and
spiritualist, has become insane and was, on
Wednesday, taken to his home in New
Harmony, in charge of his son.
Henry Ward Beecher's congregation
have unanimously voted to pay him this
year a salary of 100000 The object is
to enable him to meet the large expenses
attending the recent trial There appears
to be but one opinion in the congregation
in regard to his innocence of the charges
brought by Tilton.
Under the act of July 18th, 1874, "for
the resumption of specie payments" the
Treasury Department has disposed of ten
millions of the Five Per Cents authorized
by the act of July 18th, 1870, and has ap-
piled the proceeds to the purchase of nine
millions in silver ''for the purpose of retir-
ing the fractional currency.
An old lady, on hearing that young
friend had lost his place on account of mis-
demeanor, exclaimed:
"Miss Demeanor Lost his place on ac-
count of Miss Demeanor Well well I!
I'm afeard it's too true that there's allus a
woman at the bottom of mans difficult
ties y
The treasury statement for July shows
that there are now outstanding 1851 ,S69.-
900 of National Bank notes, which is an
increase of 81, ,974, ,S26 since the same time
last year. The amount of legal tender notes
placed IN the treasury to secure circulation
by the banks has slightly increased, but
the total volume of the currency remains
nearly the same.
Owen Judge, of Carbondale, has patented
a valuable invention in the mode of con-
structing barrel heads and butter pail COW
ers, by which they can be inserted and re-
moved without starting the hoops and by
the use of beveled central pieces and CEN
trail bolt lateral presence produced, max
ing the joints perfectly tight.-,Susquehanna
Gazette.
Annie Cremen, young lady of seven
teen, was on her way to her home in
Newark, on Monday morning, when a fire
cracker, thrown by some unknown person,
fell upon her clothing and exploded Her
dress became ignited, and in a moment she
was in flames. She ran screaming through
the street, but before help arrived her
clothing was burned entirely off her body.
No hope of her recovery is entertained
Nickel five cent pieces are counterfeit
ed by the million in New York. This is
a new counterfeit and has only been on the
market few days. The metal has been
assayed and proves to be genuine nickel,
but the execution of the work is poor. The
examination of the mint show that some of
the bogus coin is close to the weight
others vary from two grains to eight and
One-half grains, but most of them arc quite
passable.
A shopkeeper purchased of an Irish wo
man quantity of butter, the humps of
which, intended as pounds, he weighed in
the balance and found wanting. "Shure
It's your own fault if they are light" said
Biddy, in reply to the complaints of the
buyer, cts your own fault, sir, wasn't it
with pound of your own soap 1 bought
here myself that I weighed them with ?''
The shopkeeper had nothing more to say
9n that subject,
The Reading Journal says A little boy
living on North Fifth street, in this city
OWNS number of pet pigeons, with which
ne is in the habit of amusing himself.
They were all stolen from him some few
nights ago, and the little fellow, suspect
ng where they were, went to the place
md found them, as he supposed, among a