The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-24
Mexican county Jail is empty.

Bucks county only claims a three-ouar-
ter crop of corn.
Btackberries sell in Beaver county for
two cents quart.
The recent census of Montreal places
the population at las, 5000.
The recent census of Montreal nIacos
the population at $4,000.
1t is determined by actual count that
Philadelphia has 125,00O rooms to let TO
Cenntennial visitors.
The full amount needed for the POUCH
keepsle bridge has at length been subscrib
ed, and Boston rubs its hands with glee.
If the man on the fence sits there till he
has read and diggestd Governor Tilden's
letter he won't get down in time to vote.
One thousand and ffty-two new mem
Oers have been added to Rev. DR.. Tai
madges Tabernacle, Brooklyn, within
year.
Ex-County Treasurer Courtright, of
Luzerne county, convicted short time
since of embezzlement, has refunded to the
State the sum of S13, ,86s69.
Judge Culver, of New York, one of
Greeleys warmest supporters in 1872, will
stump interior New York for the Republi
can ticket. Still they come.
\ Lebanon county man claims to have
killed a blacksnake between twenty-five and
thirty feet long, and offers to substantiate
the story by showing the snake
Mackerel are so abundant near Block
Island that the water is said by fishermen
to look almost like dry land. They are
very large, too, 100 to l25 making a bar
rel.
A Pennsylvania who won ST. 900 from
John Morrisey on bet that Grant would
DC reelected, has staked $40 900 on Haves.
and Morrisey is reported in a reflective
mood.
According to Poor's Manual, the Del
4 Hud. Canal Co. lost S623, ,662 10 by
operating the Rensselaer, & Saratoga and
Albany & Susquehanna Railroads, during
the past year.
The Eastern Shore of Maryland is lite
rally alive with partridges, the moderate
weather of last winter and the favorable
spring having been specially propitious to
to those splendid game birds.
Mr.. Charles H. Treat, leading citizen
of Bath Maine, and heretofore Democrat,
has declared for Hayes and Wheeler, and
addressed Republican meeting in that
city on Tuesday evening last
A table made of the 'spotting" of seven
Western conductors on different occasions
showed that Of the s550S0 collected by
them, they turned over to the company
sl35.05, retaining s425.75.
The Clarion Democrat says: "Mrs.
Allio, of Washington township, who is be-
tween I01 and 102 years, raked forty
dozens of oats in one day this harvest She
works out in the field every day and en-
joys it.
The Reading Eagle has discovered the
champion egg eater of the county. His
name Is Woomert, and it is estimated that
he has devoured over 10000 eggs in eleven
years. He has gulped AS many as twenty
FIVE day.
The largest sponge ever found in the
Florida Is now in front OF store in New
York The spong when dry is eight feet
in circumference and when wet twelve feet,
and weighs nineteen pounds. 1t is labeled
Sam TiIden.
Mr. John B. Norton, one of the best
known Democrats of Maine, has refused to
longer support a party which indorses
murder in the South and favors repudia-
ton OF the national debt. He viii vote for
Hayes and Wheeler.
Hon. Newton Booth, of California, who
threw the Greenback nomination for the
Vice Presidency over his shoulder, it is
now said prociaims himself Hayes man
and will stump his State in that interest.
He is a power ou the coast.
Morrissey SAYS with Democratic admin
istration and Democratic majority in Con-
gress, his Washington faro banks and
gambling hells will be worth double what
they are under Republican rule. That's
the kind of reform he expects under Tilden.
The Burlington Vt.) "Free Press"
says :-'The sight of hearse driven
through one of our streets yesterday with
half bushel of cucumbers on top was
painfully suggestive 1t Is seldom that so
striking an example of cause and effect is
seen"
There are from 1000 to 5000 miles of
oil pipe lines in the oil region, lying mostly
in Butler, Armstrong, Clarion, Venango,
Crawford and Warren counties. The cost
of pipe, pumps, tanks, etc, will exceed So
O00, 900, and has been good investment
to all the companies having their capital
invested.
On Sunday ground hog walked in at
the door of Pinegrove church, Lower
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