The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-06-08
NO. 2.
A Female Monstrosity.


nose of calf From the top of her forehead
down to her lower lip, face is the calfs face.
The nostrils perform the duties of the hui
man nose, and extend down on the lower
lip like the nose and upper lip of calf
Her eyes are several inches apart, large and
peculiar in appearance. The skin of her
calf face Is smooth like other parts of her
person. The lower lip, chin and under
law; are natural human features, and of
common size. The large eyes, the broad,
fiat, calflike face, the wide nostrils, and
the thick, heavy upper lip joined to tire
human features below, gave to the face at
once horrible, revolving and hideous APP
pearance. She is eighteen years old.
There are 5000 lawyers in this State.
Lancaster gives its vagrants ''thirty days
| in the workhouse."
Nearly half as many people lie buried in
the Harrisburg cemeteries as are now liy-
ing in the city.
Mr.. Herman Hambleton, of Lebanon,
has in his possession six china cups and six
china saucers, which are $50 years old
On Saturday night burglars opened the
safe of j. B. Kirby & Son, No 3l6 Chapel
street, New Haven, Conn, and got away
with thirty thousand dollars worth of
jewelry.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has closed
three shops where pools on base ball. horse
races, billiards and other doubtful matters
were sold. The centennial city is brush
ing up its Quaker virtues to make them
shine again.
A COW belonging to John Fahnestock, of
Penn township, Lancaster county, recently
gave birth to a calf which had five legs
and seven feet the fifth LEG being attached
to the forepart of the body, and having
three perfect feet.
There is man in Binghamton, n. Y, whose
ailment is a symptom of a lingerting type
of hydrophobia. He was infected by be-
ing bitten by his wife, who died of hydro
phobia some four years ago. She was bit
ten by dog when she wasa girl, and lived
fifteen years without any symptoms Of the
disease.
At Mabanony city, on Monday after
noon, another murderer, was arrested,
named Michael Kehoe, brother of the fa-
nous Jack Kehoe, leading Molly Mcguire,
now in jail in Pottsville awaiting trial. This
Michael kehoe was arrested on the charge
of numbering George, X. Smith, at York
town, Carbon county, in 1862,
Some of the honest farmers in West
ern Pennsylvania have been discovered in
the manufacture of wolf and fox cars from
colt-hides, on which they collected large
bounties from the local treasury The
same result has been reached in different
way by the honest farmers of Central Hi
nois, who before the bear movement In
bounties, used to purchase wolves and breed
them for destruction at So or SO per cub.
Hon. James S. Rutan, Of Bcavor county,
has been nominated by the President to be
Consul General at Florence, the position
formerly held by Il. Bigelow Lawrence,
and since by J. Lorimer Graham of New
York. Mr. Rutan was lately appointed
Consul at Cardiff, in Wales, but is now
transferred to a more desirable location.
He is man of plain address, but of much
ability and tact, and there is no doubt that
he will make an acceptable representative.
at this important point
A telegraph from Denver, Colorado, re-
ports, the violent storm of rain and snow
which ragged for twenty -four hours in the
mountains and along their base broke up
on "Wednesday morning of last week. Over
six inches of rain fell in Denver, and travel
on all the railroads was interrupted by
the breaking Of bridges and embankments.
Considerable damage was also done in the
city. At Central City, Georgetown, and
other places in the mountains, the snow
was three feet deep.
When the Democrats controlled the
finances of Pennsylvania, land was taxed
and the debt Increased, the interest and
bonds being in measure repudiated. The
Republicans obtained control, the debt was
reduced from Si0,000,000 to 10000, coo,
the taxes taken off real estate, the interest
promptly paid and the bonds redeemed as
rapidly as they became due And now,
all you have to do to make the average
! Democratic editor tear his hair is to refer
to the condition Of the debt and the work
of the Republican party in connection there
with.-H'7risbuy Telegraph.
Should the United States Senate decide,
that it has jurisdiction in the Belknap
case, Secretary Chandler intends to rec
ommend the impeachment of "Jake"
Thompson, who was Secretary of the In
terror before the war. The case is being
prepared from the records of the public
documents, and the investigation had by
! Congress afterwards. The facts show that
Thompson abstracted 100000 of the pub
lie moneys in the best securities, and ex-
changed them for the individual notes of
contractors, and that was the last the Gov
ernment ever had of the immense sum
thus stolen from the public treasury. He
Is now living, and wealthy enough to be
amply able to- repay the amount to the
Government, and he should be made TO do