The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-11-18

A TIDAL-wAvE, ten feet high, swept up
the Parrett river, Somersetshire, England,
on Saturday, sinking one vessel and damag-
ing many more.
ALL hope that any of the people on board
the steamer City of Waco, which was burned
at Galveston last Monday, are saved, has
been abandoned.
Snow has fallen to depth Of from two
to twelve inches from Omaha to Ogden on
the Union Pacific Railroad, and the weather
is very cold.
AN official report of the condition of
the cotton crop, made rp the Agricultural
Bureau at Washington, indicates that the
weld this year will be rather less than in
1874.
SECRETARY BRTsTow has decided to dis
pence with all sinecures in the custom
houses of the country, and thereby reduce
the expenses of the government at least
s6O0,00 per annum.
IT is understood that the government
will furnish transportation TO their homes
to the Warm Snring Indians now in Wash
ington in consideration for their services
in the Modoc war.
THE Methodist Missionary General Com
mittee have lust resolved that the arnro
priation for 1876 shall be limited to e675.
600. OF this sum s195.OOO is to be ap
propriated for foreign missions.
In Potter county, in this State, no IL
censes for selling liquors have been granted
for number of years past. The Prohibi-
tion State ticket, Brown and Pennypacker,
polled just two votes in the county.
BURKE & HELY, bankers, of Little
Falls, n. Y, suspended payment Yesterday,
and made an assignment to J. w. Cronk-
hite, of that village. Liabilities about
s1OO, 1000 assets supposed to be small
THE coming war in Europe is predicted
far next spring bv Col. Charles c. Chesnev.
distinguished English engineer officer and
military author. Prussia is put down as
the power that is to precipitate the conflict
with Germany.
THE little boy taken from the Poole
Brothers, acrobats at Washington variety
theatre, on Saturday was stolen from his
legal custodian Sunday night by one of the
brothers, who were both apprehended in
Baltimore yesterday, and will be taken to
the capital for trial.
OUR readers will no doubt be astonished
to learn that the receipts of the Athletic
base ball club for the past year were SOB
699,90. They will be still more astonished
to learn that their expenditures during the
same time exceeded the above amount
S261. 80, showing that running even first
class base ball nine is not the road to wealth
A CHICAGO liquor dealer was the other
day arrested on the charge of removing the
stamps from two barrels of whisky. HeI
proved that the stamps had been licked off
by a pet chipmunk, and was discharged
The question now arises, what shall bel
done with the chipmunk =? The animal is
clearly guilty of a violation of the revenue
laws.
In the United States Circuit Court, atI
Providence, r. L., yesterday, George T..
Butterworth and Maria j. Butterworth
were indicted for uttering and PASSING
counterfeit United Utates currency. George
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to five
years in the State prison The idictment
against Maria was Withdrawn, and she was
REPORTS received at Omaha, Nebraska
last night, from points west of Chevenna
state that trains on the Union Pacific rail
road are blockaded by snow. The tele
graph lines are down now east of the men
sent out to repair the break of SUNDAY
but the main trouble is between Grocn
river and Granger's, distance of twenty.
one miles: Unless the weather moderates
considerably it will probably be a day or
two before telegraphic communication
to San Francisco can be had The
Union Pacific Company is sending ont snow W.
trains from Cheyenne. ~ '''O"