The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-06-15

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Woolen mills in Connecticut are stock
ing up, and begin to look like business
again.
1t is a shameful thing that best are being
made in New York city that Commodore
Vanderbilt will die before the 4th of July.
The foot and mouth disease has broken
out with great violence among the swine
in the country near Montreal, Canada.
Bob Toombs is in Washington, drunk as
a lord. He is still mourning over the loss
of his slaves, and tearing the union asun-
der with his mouth.
Extraordinary. A turtle was killed at
Bufort North Carolina, last week, which
on examination, was found to contain one
thousand and fifty eggs.
Big fish are reaching our shores, doubt
less for centennial purposes. a sturgeon
weighing $50 pounds was recentl y captured
in Massachusetts waters.
The ratio of physicians to population is
now 1 to 500 A few years ago the ratio
was 1 to 200. The longer they practice
the smaller the list Of patients.
The emigration of so many Mormons
from Utah to New Mexico gives a strong
coloring of truth to the rumor Of the New
Mexican occupation by Brigham's band.
The potato bug already figures in law
suit in New Jersey, where woman charges
her neighbor with throwing a lot of them
over her fence and poisoning her fowls.
A Michigan cobbler named Kitchen has
had a "windfall' float over to him from
England, in the shape of a 100000 roll of
money. That'll keep the kitchen pot boil
ing
An immense aquarium is being con
structed in New York city, and from the
enterprise already manifested by the pro
prietors it promises to be one Of the great
attractions of the metropolis.
Hon. Winthrop W. Ketchum has been
appointed by the President Judge of the
United States Court for the Western Dis
trict of Pennsylvania, vice McCandlesS, re
tired on full pay by special act of Congress.
A country editor is reponsible for the
suggestion that in this degenerate age it
would be well to have church wardens and
deacons each provided with bell-punch
when they pass around the contribution
boxes.
In Judge MArthur's court, in Wash
ington, the other day, a lawyer called the
| Judges attention to the fact that a certain
case had been upon the docket for decade,
Il know it, said the judge, ''but the case
is not decaycd.
a grumbling car-driver told to passen-
ger, ''You always want me to stop when
YOU get off ''No, sir, said the passenger
who had no jumping notinos, Il don't care
what you do. [ only want the car to STOP
you can go on
The annual tuition fees in various cas-
tern colleges are given in the Yale Record
as follows: Syracuse university, $50; Cor
nell, S60 Dartmouth, SO; Rochester
university, SIS Brown, S65 Williams
800 to S95 Amherst, 500; Yale, S140
Harvard, $3.50; Pennsylvania university
$3.50 to S170.
There are now 81 anthracite furnaces il
the Lehigh region, with capacity of pro
ducing in the aggregate about 600, 600 ton.
of iron per annum Half of the number
are, however, not in blast at this time. The
raw material used in making the abov,
quantity of iron is about as follows Coal
900, 600 tons ore, 900, 900 tons and lime
stone 100000 tons, making a sum total
in tons, 100000 for one years product
A dispatch from Santa Ross, Cal, say
r that on Friday night about one hundred
8, and fifty armed men went to the Jail Of tha
town, overpowcred the keeper and tool
Thomas W. Henley, who was confined
there waiting the action of the grand jur,
for killing james Rowland, promnen
citizen, about a month ago, and hung hin
to a tree about a mile from town. Tn
G body was discovered Saturday morning
, Public sentiment is disposed to consider tn
D action of the mob as in the interest Of JUS
t tice.
c A lady living in Troy, n. Y, recentl
r purchased some brown striped calico, an,
r made it into a morning dress. a part c
/ the fabric was warn next the arms an,
r neck, and, after wearing it short time
: she was taken sick 1t was found that he
sickness was caused by wearing the calico
which had been colored by some poisonou
meterial Erysipelas resulted, which wa
f given to her nursing child, causing its deatl
The child of am optician has also bee
. poisoned by wearing brown striped stock
f ings. This brown dye used in coloring
! cheaper than the harmless one, and henc
= the temptation for unscrupulous manufactul
ers to empty it.
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