The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-10

prison little thieves for small offenses and
run railroad sharpers and ballot-box suffers
as Presidential candidates"
The August mcteors rarely miss their
appointments on the night of the 10th. and
they may be looked for as early as the
9th.
Thomas Conyngham, prominent business
man of Wilkesbarre, in this State, is re-
ported to have absconded after forging pa
pers to the amount of nearly 100000.
Cincinnati fishermen have discovered
that the potato bug is good bait for trout
1t has already been known that the trout
is more greedy than discriminating in his
diet
The Detroit Free Press asks this difficult
question: "Wheu Baltimore lawyer will
kill himself because it is too hot to live.
what are the rest of us fooling around here
for ?"
\ carrier pigeon, set off at Scranton,
the other day, reached New York in two
hours and twenty minutes This is said to
be the fastest known time made by any
pigeon in the country.
The earnings of the Baltimore and Ohio
road for the first half of the current year
were 81 l,847,7G9 II, against 81 ,589, ,O64 81
for the corresponding period last year, an
increase Of S256,764 Sc.
Hon. w. W. Ketcham has been sworn
in and entered upon his duties of Judge of
the United States Circuit Court for the
Western District of Pennsylvania, in place
Of Judge McCandless, retired.
\ drove of cattle, driven few weeks
ago from Captain Kings rancho, in
Neuces county, Texas, to Kansas, number
ed 80, 600 horned cattle and needed 700
drivers. The ontft alone cost s., 900, and
the cattle were disposed of for $4,000.
Some idea of the extent to which the
national luuacy prevails may be obtained
from the fact that single firm in New
York has sold $4,000, base ball bats, 18O.-
600 balls, $500 pairs of ball shoes, 3,O9O
pairs of colored hose, 5000 caps and 800
COluI IhCIC uhllOlLio.
The official reports of the savings banks
in New York city for July show a sound
! financial basis The total resources are
S2G7 ,370, $50 liability to depositors, S184, :,
123, ,793 surplus, $23 ,246,7 1913. Since Jan
the liabilities have decreased S593, ,919, and
the surplus has increased by $2,559, 10
The following seasonable remedy should
be kept on hand by every family: Take
equal parts Of tincture of opium, red pep
per, rhubarb, peppermint and camphor. Ii
is remedy for summer complaint, diarrhpa
cramp in the bowels, and similar maladies
and affords almost instant relief The dose
is from three to ten drops on sugar for :
child, according to age, and 10 to 30 drop,
for an adult, according to the severity o.
the attack.
They've got Greek Hercules out il
San Francisco With 400 pounds on his
breast, 400 on his back, bar of 2OO
pounds on his neck, and man on each
shoulder, he walks and dances to music
wearing shoes weighing seyenty-fve pound;
each.
Henry Delikcr, near Pikcville, Pike
township, Berks county, while grading
oats, captured black snake measuring foul
feet five inches in length. Inside of that
snake was another, spotted snake, two
two feet ten inches long, and in that snake
were twenty young snakes each six inches
long. The spotted snake had evidently
been swallowed by the black snake short
time before
The last Pennsylvania rattlesnake story
is of Blooming Grove infant of four, who
brought one in to his mother, held by the
neck and by the rattles. The snake hav
ing been dropped at the command of the
mother and dispatched with her broom
stick, the youngster cried at the loss of hi,
play fellow and said he knew where there