The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-11-30
)n City has population of 200.

THE eplzooty preFaiis at rIeePoIt, Oul-
Ter county.
TR.lMps now seek the shelter of the
country jais.
THE public schools of Bethlehem have
military drills.
NAMES potato crop is estimated at G.
100000 bushels.
THERE are at present one prisoners con-
fined in our Jail.
NOBODY wants war except those who
have nothing to lose
PorAToEs are selling at ninety-fve cents
bushel in Reading.
PHILADELPHIA will reduce the salaries
of her officers 80 per cent.
AUCTION sales of coal last week de-
cline of 10 to 10 per cent.
DELAWARE county man made $50, 900
gallons of cider this season.
IT is claimed that money will be plenty
at 5 per cent. next Spring.
THE number of pupils enrolled in the
Erie public schools is 3,005.
4 LEBANON butcher has received large
order for corned beef to be shipped to Scot
land
THERE are twenty-five hundred public
schools in Pennsylvania is which the Bible
is not read.
THE official vote of Arkansas is as fol-
lows Tilden, 5S,OS3; Hayes, 1860 /;
Cooper, 2ll.
TIE recent terrible cyclone in Bengal
swept over an area of three thousand
squares miles.
THE eleven -years-old son of A T.
Keller, Of Benton, has killed two hundred
squirrels this season.
FIFTEEN acres of chestnut timber in
Montgomery sold in lots of one-and-a half
acres at $3.50 per acre.
THE narrow gauge railway in the Gen.
tcnnial grounds carried 3,7S4,71S passen-
gers during the exhibition.
JOSEPH NELLY, of Lebanon, has a straw
berry patch the plants of which are bloom
ins for the second time this year.
SIX criminals were whipped and exposed
in the pllory at New Castle, Del, Satur-
day, receiving from twenty to forty lashes
ech
\ SOMERSET county man named Hurst
succeeded one day last week in killing three
hundred partridges on the borders of West
moreand county,
NRs C. DAVIDSON, of Richmond town.
ship, and Mrs Martin Garrison, Of Geneva
borough, both in Crawford county, have
recently given birth to tripletc,
The city of Philadelphia will be obliged
to raise 20,204,759 rs by taxation to keep
the wheels rolling for another year under
tie city government.
F. B. BLoUsER, Of Bloomfield Perry
county, reports to the Times yield of over
600 bushels Of corn from field containing
only three and and half acres.
The city of Reading owes the Reading
Gas Company, the Eagle says, s17 ,194 o.
1t fears that the gas company will own the
city, if the bill is not soon liquidated.
A SCRANTON mechanic, W. r. Lend
rum, has just completed miniature loco
motive, complete in all details of mechanism,
which runs by steam and only weighs 120
pounds.
4 STATE law makes it the duty of road
supervisors to erect sign boards at the in
tersection of all roads in their respective
townships. The penalty for neglect is ten
dollars and costs
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD child of Reuben
Eshenan, of Lebanon, ate a quantity of
jmson weed on Monday, which acted on
the child as though it had drank liquor
1t continued in an intoxicated condition for
eight or nine hours before its recovery
Two gunners, Adam and Samuel Reif-
snyder, of North Heidelberg, on Thursday,
shot on South Mountain, twenty pheasants,
twenty-four partridges and twelve rabbits,
which they sold in the Reading market,
pheasants at twenty cents, partridges ff-
teen and rabbits fifteen to twenty-five
cents.
a substitute for sand or sawdust used in
Sprlnklng the floors Of saloons and restaur-
ants has been discovered. The new mater
ial Is of paper, and is the cast-off of another
industry, the PARTICLES aecumulating from
the pertorating of heavy paper used in
working notices and designs with silk or
worsted for framing.
IHE United States frigate Franklin,
with William VI. Tweed on boord as pris-
oner, finally arrived at New York on last
thursday. He was at once delivered by
the Federal authorities to the Sheriff, who
conveyed him to his old quarters in Lud-
low street Jail. No one was allowed to
communicate with him. There are 90
criminal indictments pending against Tweed,
and an unsatisfed execution for the re-
covery of $6,000,O0O stolen from the city
while ne was "Boss" of the TammaDy
Ring