The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-09-28

week were valued at 81 ,1O6,196.
Twenty-one of the thirty-eight States
elect Governors this fall.
There are $50 Journals in the German
language published in this country.
The foreign exports from Philadelphia
last week, amounted to sl,21S,S66.
Bethlehem is going to number its houses
and put names on its street corners.
Coldwater is a queer name for liquor
dealer There is one in New York.
New York city has expended $3.50, ,O0O,-
600 on new buildings in the last decade,
Baltimore canning houses are putting up
all the fruit this season that they can
1t is estimated that San Francisco will
spend in education next year $4,000.
\ Reading terrier dog gets drunk on
larger-the Times says so. How about
the hogs?
Chester county jail has seventy four
prisoners-the largest numer ever con-
fined there
Florida has just contributed to the list
of curiosities a calf with human head
No joke here.
The total quantity of salmon caught in
the Canadian waters this year was about
$50, 900 pounds.
The Hon. Ben Wood of New York city.
has bet S400 against $500 that HAYES will
carry New Jersey.
\ carefully revised summary of the gu
bernatorial vote in Vermont gives Fair
banks 1872 majority.
4 Lehigh county turkey gobbler recently
hatched out five guinea hens and now cares
for them like Another.
The Tamaqua Courier finds the surest
remedy for potato bugs is to have brass
band play close by the potato patch.
General \. z. Banks has consented TO be
the Republican candidate for reelection to
congress from the Fifth Mass district
They have cockroaches down in Florida
four inches in length, and yet they com
plain of a lack of sporting privileges in that
! section.
They are beginning to estimate the COM
ing cotton crop in the South. 1t is said
that it will vary between 4,250,000 and
4,500,00 bales.
The number Of shingles annually pro-
duced in this country is estimated at ;, ,265,-
100000, and there's a good bit of country
not yet rooted in.
The Democrats have lost their only Sena-
tor in Vermont and thirty of their sixty
members of the House of Representatives,
and they are talking about their gains"
Three English children, acrobat perform
ers in Murray's circus, were taken charge
of by the society for the prevention of cru
city to children at Poughkeepsie, Saturday.
The New York World, Democratic pa
per, has the following sly dig at Tilden
There is money enough stolen every year
from the railroads in this country to pay
all their debts"
Colorado was the twenty-ffth State ad-
mitted in the Union since the Revolutionary
war. The United States is composed of
thirty-eight States, nine Territories and
the District of Columbia.
y few days ago leading Philadelphia
Democrat remarked to a Republican friend:
-"You needn't tell everybody, but the
election is over p That is the way good
many of them are feeling about it just now.
The number of veterinary surgeons is
ridiculously small, compared to the live
stock in the country. The last census
shows the number of surgeons to be LOO,
and there are over 100000 horses and
mules.
4 fatal disease has broken out among
the cattle at Hawley, and large numbers
have died. 1t is supposed to have been in
troduced by Western cattle, a herd of
which was brought to that locality last
spring.
1t is said that the silent population of
the cemeteries of Brooklyn, n Y, out
number its half million inhabitants by at
least 100, 900 The interments in Green
wood have reached lS2, PA. and in Calva-
ry 270, 600 are buried
Vance, Democratic candidate for Cover
nor of North Carolina, is the man who said
he would like to fill he'll so full of Yam
KEGS that their arms and legs would stick
out of the windows" These are the kind
of men to govern the country.
\ chap was arrested in Philadelphia the
other day for stealing a clock The Judge
told him that he had taken another man :
time TO begin with, he could now take his
own time to reflect upon it, and sent him
up for three months forthwith.
One of the notable features in New York
harbor at present is the monster ship which
Commodore Vanderbilt presented to our
| Government 1t is three hundred and
twenty-five feet in length, and can spread
24,0 600 square yards of canvas, and is the
largest sailing vessel in existence.
1t is probable that Wheden, the prize
fighter, who killed Walker in the ring a
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