The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-07-29

Norristown, has five school houses, with
2,180 seats.
Allentown boasts of chickens which cost
$50 per pair.
Three new oil wells have been struck in
the Butler region.
There are 568 Oranges of Patrons of
Husbandry in the State.
The oats crop in Pennsylvania will be
heavier than for some years past.
A Mennonite colony has settled in
Cottonwood county, Minnesota.
The Bethlehem Iron Company's county
taxes are 50, 130.90 for the year.
In 1869, in Central Illinois, corn was
replanted as late as the Sd of July.
a Minnesota woman killed forty-eight
bushels of grasshoppers and got 81 per
bushel
Tweed says he has paid his lawyers to
date about 100000. But he has millions
of plunder left.
Connecticut's hay crop, this year, will be
the largest ever known to the oldest farmers
of that old State.
The prisoners in the Northampton coun-
ty Jail amuse themselves by playing base
ball in the jail yard,
At Williamsport, Pa, several manufac-
tories are reducing the hours of work on
account of dull times
Binghamton, n Y. according to the
census Just completed, has population of
Is, ,425, gain of 1924 since 1870.
Hugh Donahue, of Boston, completed
on Thursday night the feat of walking 100
miles In 1100 consecutive hours.
An aged colored man has been holding
street meetings in Coatesville. He says
with a regiment of singers he can whip an
army Of sinners"
A jaw, three feet long, has been un-
earthed at Goshen, Indiana 1t is sup
posed to be a relic of some woman's Fighter
Of the Silurian age.
A gambler in Iowa, to escape arrest, at
tempted to cross river with pocket-book
between his teeth. His strength or skill
not proving adequate, he was obliged to
open his mouth in order to call for help,
his pocket-book, containing $1,000, went to
to the bottom.
The cash vault of the Treasury at Wash
ington requires three keys to open it, and
these are in charge of three gentlemen, each
holding one key, and the presence of all is
necessary to unlock the vault. The Secre-
tary of the Treasury appoints one, the
Treasurer one and the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing one.
An examination Of the States Treasury
of New York has just been made. Every
thing was found all right The amount of
money on hand, on June 30, was $7,521,-
l08 03. The balance called for by the
books at that date was S7,521 10Y 80.
There was thus shown an apparent surplus
OF four cents. The 'sensationists' there as
here had their trouble for nothing.
Gold has rapidly declined within the last
two weeks, and on Saturday last closed at
liza premium of rather less than one
eighth. Lega[tender currency has appre-
clated exactly In the same proportion, and
greenbacks are now worth about 80 cents
to the dollar. The closer they come toce-
ther the better for trade and general pros
perIty. Whenever the two become inter
chargeable In equal amounts we shall have
the best currency in the world.
One ofthe heaviest rains the season fell
on Thursday throughout the Ohio Valley.
The fall at Evansville was three inches
while at Vincenes the rain was heavy
enough to beat down the grain, corn and
grass, 1t is believed that 10000 acres of
corn In the Wabash bottom are under wa
ter and the Wabash river continues to rise
rapidly. All the streams in Southern Ohio
and Kentucky are swelling, and the Kama
wha river at Charlestown, West Va, has
risen ID feet.