The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-01-20
In Harrisburg thieves steal Grape off door

Pansies ard danditions were in full bloom
In Venango county on the 9Th inst.
Twenty-six new school houses were built
in Luzerne county during the past year.
Richmond, Va, is growing steadily and
solidly. 1t now claims a population of " ;
500
The receipts of the New York city street
railroads, sixteen in number, foot up over
SS 600, 900 for last year
Heavy SHOWS have fallen in the south of
France. The town of Mende has been
blockaded for three days.
Samuel j. Comercr, of Ayr township,
Fulton county, has a stove made in 1764,
which is still good for years of usefulness:
Governor Tilden has declined to favor
ably entertain the petition for the pardon
Of +. S. Stokes, the murderer of James
Fisk, Jr.
New York merchants who are in a posi-
ton to Judge, estimate an Improvement in
business this year over last of twenty five
per cent.
Rich quartz gold mines have been dis
covered near Laramie City, Wyoming Ter
ritory, and they nave been named the "Cen-
tennial Lode"
"a man named Burgess, colored, con-
fined in the Baton Rouge, La, Jail for kill
ing white man, was hanged by mob on
Friday night.
The age of jockeyism Last year the
races run in this country for money num-
bered $50, and the sums at stake amount
ed to $3.50, ,000
Do you know that "big onion poultice"
is eficacious in typhoid pneumonia, flap
piled to the chest, and in pleurisy, if ap-
piled to the side ? 1t is so averred
THE age of travel. The tickets sold at
the indianapolis railroad depot last year
amounted to S961,737 So, an increase of
S23,691 so over the preceding year.
Thad. Stevens housekeeper has been al
lowed S7,714 for services as housekeeper
by the executors of Mr.. Stevens, and Dr.
II. Carpenter gets $4,000 for professional
services.
THE American Bible Society ought not
to complain of the hard times. Its re-
ccipts for the past year were nearly $780,
900, and it issued almost ,000,000 copies
Of the Word.
Allentown, Pa, has thirty segar facto-
ries, which turn out monthly 100000. She
=. IL IL e
in the United States, New York being first
and Detroit second.
A Tioga county justice of the peace was
caught in the dead hour of night, filching
from neighbor's corn crib, and his con-
stituents advise him to follow Greeley's ad
monition to young men.
THE street railroads of Philadelphia are
beginning to arrange for the Centennial
business Six of them will run cars TO the
Exposition grounds every minute, making
four hundred cars an hour.
A Bucks county poultry thief climbed
tree to catch some turkeys that were
roosthing on the upper branches. A limb
broke under the weight of the thief and he
fell on an old moving machine under the
tree and broke one of his legs.
Josh. Clark, a veteran engineer on the
Western division of the Erie road, recently
ran his engine 1,750 miles, putting in six
teen and half days time, in single week
and drew therefor S66 pay. This is said
to be the biggest locomotive fest on record.
The product of the Cambria Steel Works,
Johnstown, Pa, for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1875, was 55,525 1S0-2240
tons of steel This is the largest output,
by many thousand tons, of any other five
ton plant in the world, and reflects the
greatest credit upon the management of
that industry.
Mr.. S. c. King, elected Sheriff of Nc
Kean county last fall, is sad. 1t has just
been discovered that there was no legal
election for Sheriff, as the term of the pres
ent Sheri6-appointed by the Governor to
fill vacancy-docs not expire until the
end of the Legislature.
During the past season, says the Williams,
port Gazette and Bulletin, over 1,720 car
loads of potatoes passed over the Northern
Central Railroad, eastward. Each car
contained, on an average, 300 bushels
making total of $4,000 bushels. They
were of the crop of 1875.
Flocks of wild pigeons have passed over
Cambria county within few days past, 60
ing northward In the craws of some of
them shot on Monday, grains of rice were
found, indicating that they had come from
South Carolina. 1t is an unusual thing
for them to migrate to the north at this
time of year.
A horse belonging to Robert K. Collam,
of Oxford, Chester county, died on Christ
mas day in the thirty-ffth year of its age,
having been in the possession of the same
family for twenty seven years. The horse