The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-31
Locomotives valued at s87 900 were
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shipped to Brazil last week from Philadel.
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DIR. Z. 2. Miller, of Saegersville, Lehieh
county, has discovered large body of blue
roofing slate on his property.
One hundred recruits to join the armv
OF Generals Crook and Terry against the
hostile Indians left New York SUNDAY pipbt
for Cheyenne
Every one desiring to vote on the 7th of
November must be registered sixty davs
previous, which will be the 9TH of Seutem-
Der.
The Bradford county Odd Fellows, not
wlthstandlng the extortionate railroad fares.
are making arrangements to visit the Centen-
NAL as a body.
A breed of dogs without tails has been
discovered in Africa and how the mis-
chlevous boys there utilize old tin kettles
and fruit cans, We cannot pretend to say.
The Tribune makes strong point when
1t says that not single flaw has been found
yet IN Gov. Hayes record. That fact
makes frst-class campaign document all
by itself
If you want truth to go round the world.
you must hire an express train to pull it :;
but if you want lie to 60 round the world
it will fly; it is light as feather, and
breath will carry it.
Are you there, my love-" he whis-
pered through hole in the fence of his
beloved's back yard "Yes, darling" was
the reply, Jump right over" He did so,
and alighted in the presence of her mother,
broomstick, and policeman.
Numerous consultations of Internal
Revenue Collection Districts have been
made, to take effect Sept 1st. Among the
changes thus made, the Eleventh District
in Pennsylvania, of which Monroe county
forms part, is consolidated with the Twelfth:
Edward II. Chase, of Wilkesbarre, to be
Collector.
The Scuyklill county prison is nearly full
of "Mollie Maguires, and the cry is still
they come. John J. Slattery, of Tuscarora,
who was within few votes of being elected
AssocuIte Judge, 4 few years ago. and John
Staunton, of Mt. Laffee, are the latest ac-
quisitions to jail. There are serious charges
against both men.
Soldiers who lost arms or legs in the
army and received s24 per month pension
have not heretofore been entitled to com
mutation for loss of limbs Congress at its
last session amended the law so as to give
the class referred to limbs or communication
therefor. Applicants should apply to the
Surgeon General of the army.
There was a fall in potatoes Saturday at
New York from FIVE dollars TO two dollars
per barrel, consequent upon the arrival Of
several thousand barrels from Kentucky
and western states and the announcement
that more were en- route. The potatoe crop in
many sections of New York state has been
Il complete failure from the effects of the
drought and bugs
The bill to punish counterfeiting of ftrade
marks has, contrary to expectation, become
4 law. 1t is one of the most severe mea-
sUres on the statute book. In effect it pro-
vides that any person who shall make, Or
der, or in any way procure the fabrication
of counterfeit trade mark, or any color
able imitation Of trade mark, registered
in accordance with the laws OF the United
States, shall be fined not exceeding 81 ,000I
and imprisoned not more than two years,
or both. Any abettor TO violation of the
law IS to be fined $500, with Imprisonment
not exceeding one year.
Messrs. Williams & Woods, the contrac-
tors for building the Lehigh and Eastern
Railroad, correct the statement that they
had contracted for forty miles as follows -
:. We have contracted with the company for
the entire road, and the contract has been
ratified by the Board of Directors, and we
have already commenced operations. The
road is to be finished SO that train of cars
loaded with coal shall reach Boston by the
first day of April next.
Ground was broken Oh Thursday last at
Matamoras, Pa, for the Lehigh and Eastern
which Is to extend one hundred
miles and connect with the Erie railway at
Port Jervis, n Y The road is to be com
rlated on the 1st of April 1877