The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-07-15
NO. 7.


a new sawmill has been started at vii.
Transport which cuts &C, GOO feet Of lumber
per day.
The day before yesterday lightning struck
a Cincinnati distillcry and took S25, 200
drink of whisky,
Italy has had visitation Of locttsts,
which appeared in vast numbers in the
vicinity Of Verona.
Don't you wish you was hen, so yoit
could spread your wings out and let the
wind blow under them
\ woman was struck by lightning near
Raleigh, n. c., on Saturday, and fatally
injured, her neck being broken.
The quarterly dividend of 2t per cent
on the stock of the Delaware, Lackawanra
and Western Road is payable July 23.
This year the Southern peach crop is so
prolific that limbs of the trees are frequent
ly broken off by the weight of the fruit.
Chicago fills up with grain as fast as she
ships East, showing that the Northwest Is
still carrying last years crop to a large cx-
tent.
A whole Catholic congregation, consist.
ing OF eleven hundred persons, at Carleton,
n. B., recently took the temperance pledge
together.
The importation of fire crackers this
year Will amount to 100000 boxes, an in
crease of 100, 900 boxes over last years i'm,
portation.
The shipments Of boots. shoes and rub
bers from Boston since January 1st exceeds
those Of last year by more than II 900
cases, or nearly ten per cent.
A Philadelphian was so anxious to see
all the fun at the Bunker Hill centennial
that he paid thousand dollars for fur
nished house there for three days.
Santa Barbara, California, boasts the
largest rose on record. 1t is lclnon-colored,
has delicious perfume, and is sixteen and
three-tourths inches in circumference.
A Frenchman fishing in the Merrimac
River, at Hooksett, Me, a few days since;
caught a lake eel SIX feet long, and fifteen
inches in circumference, which weighed
Viii y NV pOuheiS'
The United States has become the great
est silver producing country of the world,
taking precedence even of Mexico, which
has hitherto been supposed to yield nearly
two-thirds of the worlds supply.
\ singular freak of nature. An In
dianna farmer has fine young heifer about
two or three years old, that gives over Il
gallon of excellent milk at each milking, al
though she has never had calf
To the surprise of many, the Reading
Railroad has announced its usual quarterly
dividend of p per cent, or Sl4 per share;
payable in cash on the Both of July. On
the strength of this stock advanced to 81,
against % the day before.
Lancaster county promises 6000 ma.
jority for the Republican ticket at the conf
ing election. The Lancaster Erpress and
a number of influential gentlemen III that
! county who three years ago opposed Hart
rantt are now very earnestly III his support.
The money at the Treasury Department
at Washington was all counted last week.
The amount was about SGT. 600 .0G0-each
separate note of which was handled BY one Of
the counters. About 20 ladies were en-
| ployed. The count was made necessary by
the change of Treasurer.
Miller Wolf, aged 6 years. Who was
stolen from his home in Scranton several
months since, was found in Mahanoy City
on Wednesday night, in care of drunken
woman. The child and woman have been
sent to Scranton, the former to his parents,
the latter to Jail.
Six houses, purchased in Boston for
3 Senator Jones, Of Nevada, have been ship
ped TO him. Among them are the noted
trotters 'Sweet Briar" and Lady Otis,
for which the sum of sl5,000 was paid
The others include a pair of saddle horses
and pair of carriage horses.
= The New York Herdld dcvotes column,
to the discussion of Mr.. Beccher's stick-it
| out resolution, while the Cincinnatia En-
> quirer disposes of the whole matter i'll thi
+ single telling sentence ''lIe Mr. Bcechel
/ will not allow little thing like that to in
!. teritre with his Christian usefulness.
Under the new Constitution the politica
! minority III edCu county vi llilS cttlte WI
# next fall choose Il Commissioner and al
/ Auditor One of the results is that il
n Berks county there are men who are ac
d tually seeking a Republican nomination.
J thing that never before occurred IN he
" history.
h The number of live hogs in the sevc
r. hog raising States, January lst. Was II
. 2l3, 800, divided as follows ;-lndiana, ,
G7O, 900; Illinois, 2,034,000; Iowa, ;
39S, 200 Missuri, 2,0S2 600 Ohio,
+ 735, 400 Kentucky, l,706,000; Wisco,
: sin, 587 500. 1t is estimated that the +,
y turns from other States will make the ho
u crop for this year over lS,00O,O00 head.
he The Delaware and Maryland peach ere
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