The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-03-09

IHe NdIue Vi lile wares nduuldcIuleu II
the West Chester prison last year is set dow
at Sl1 900.
READING has financial muddle in it
School Board. Scranton is laboring under
similar difficulty
AT a meeting ofthe Stroudsburg Building
and Loan Association money sold at prem
ium of Al, 42 and 43 cents
STRoUDsBURG ladies carry mirrors in thei
mufs in which to view their angelic faces al
they pass along the streets.
A Reading man, with no tools but pen
knife and augur, has made perfect working
model in wood of a locomotive.
One hundred and ninety eight tramps re
ceived lodgings in this place up to the 1st O.
March at an expense of IS cents. a night
EVERY garment sold by Wanamaker
Brown, 9th and Market, Philadelphia has tC
pass through the hands of at least foul
inspectors.
THE warm weather of last Sunday was
peculiarly pleasing as could readily be seer
by the unusual number Of promenaders Gu
our streets.
SCRANTON still boasts the ownership Of
two Chiefs of Police. As one Of them is now
hors-du-cOn,bat from an accident, the second
chief comes handy.
There is a man in Lower Macungie, Lehigh
county, who has eleven daughters at home 1t
takes one hundred and ninety-eight yards ot
calico to go around.
THE Rev. Dr. Carrow delivered very
interesting sermon in the NJ. f. Church of
this place, on last Sunday evening to large
ard appreciative audience.
The school boards of the state are respond
ing with alacrity to the request of the super
intendent of public instruction that they
contribute s. toward proper representation
of the educational interests of Pennsylvania
at the Centennial.
THE Rev Robert Wallace, preached trial
sermons in the morning and evening on last
Sunday in the Presbyterian Church, at this
place. Large audiences greeted him on both
occasions. So far as we have learned the
Rev. gentleman sermons were received
favorably
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with their alterations of machinery, &c. pre-
paratory to the narrow gauge experiment
Already quite number of narrow gauge coal
cars are completed The running on the
new gauge will begin about the Ist of June
DONATION SUPpER.-A Donation Supper
will be held by the members of the NJ E.
Church at Delaware Water Gap, in the lee
ture room Of their church on Wednesday
evening March 18th, 1876. Proceeds for
the benefit of the Pastor. Public patronage
kindly solicited Committee.
WE regretted to learn, on Friday last, that
Mr. Henry Singmaster, of this place, was
suffering from an attack Of paralysis and
that his many friends we're feeling alarm for
his recovery. We were pleased to learn soon
after, however, that he had rallied from the
attack, and that his recovery was only a
question of short period Of time
Our County Treasury appears to be parti-
cularly burdened with the shorts just now-in
fact lacks the necessary pewter" with which
to redeem county checks. Look sharp gen
tlemen collectors and ''hasten up the cakes, !"
or some one may be after you with sharp
stick.
Mr.. j. N. SMITH, painter and grainer,
requests US to announce that he has resumed
the business Of house painting and graining
in all its branches, and respectfully solicts
the patronage of the citizens of this place
and vicinity. Reference. Il. McCarty &
Sons. Mr.. S. has done considerable grain
ing and painting at McCarty establishment,
whichjudges ofthe art, pronounced frst-class
work. Give him a call
a BILL has been introduced into the House
making 1t misdemeanor to set up or main
tain any bone-boiling and fat rendering
establishment within the corporate limits of
any city in this Commonwealth. Upon COM
plant of two hundred citizens, and convic-
ton, the court may sentence the offender to
pay fine not exceeding $1,000 and imprison-
ment not exceeding three months. Under
the proposed law existing establishments may
be removed.
a Germantown gentleman will exhibit
$50 kinds of trees and shrubs at the Cen
tennial