The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-09-07
NO. ID.

white as silver, popularity fall the honey
made this season.
a strange marriage took place at New
London last Saturday. When the cere.
mony was finished, the bridegroom refused
to fee the clergyman or to allow his wife to
be kissed, and told her to go her way and
he would go his, which they both did
The damage by grasshoppers during the
last few years to the crops of Colorado, Da-
kota, Missouri, iowa, Kansas, Nebraska
and Minnesota is estimated at about $780,
100000. Now find them an efficient de.
stroyer of the potato bug, and they will all
be happy.
An old religious fanatic named Cobb has
been the Immediate cause of several brutal
murders in Arkansas. He proclaims him
self Christ, and his deluded followers carry
out his doctrine, even to the extent of
murder. At some places infants have been
offered up as sacrifices.
An imposter is going the rounds in Ches-
ter county representing himself to be an
agent for lady's magazine, having with
him two copies of chrome premiums, for
which he also solicits orders for frames.
lie collects any sum he cau get, from sew
enty-hve cents upward.
\ correspondent of the Slatington Ne,cs
writes to that paper from Weatherly that
man named Buck, while out Deriving
near that place, came across rattlcsnake,
which he killed, and which upon being
measured was found to be seventeen feet
and threC-quarter inches long That beats
the Welsh Mountains snake
In the Lehigh coal region miners and all
inside hands have been reduced fifteen per
cent. below the wages paid in August.
Engineers, bosses, fremen and outside
hands a reduction Of from ten to twenty
per cent. The men accept the situation
and there will be no trouble.
A young man who was engaged to be
married recently committed suicide in Gin
clnnati and the mother Of the damsel
whom he was to wed brought in a bill
against his estate of S128 for board and
$50 for wedding expenses incurred by the
prospective bride The court allowed S10G
of the account, and the matter was finally
0O''tO" ~ IIC pay iAeuC Vi pOJ.
In the northern townships of Berks coun-
ty the distillation Of apple whiskey, gener-
ally known as 'apple jack, has already
commenced, and it is expected that the pro-
duction will exceed that of any former year.
The apple crop is reported to be very large,
and the farmers are hauling their apples to
the distilleries. y large quantity Of vine
gar is also being made.
A few days since a three year old daugh-
ter of Mr. Corbit, in West Nantmeal, was
sitting on the grass playing with dog,
when the child's mother, hearing the dog
whine, rushed into the yard and found her
little daughter almost frightened to death.
\ blacksnake nearly four feet long was
wound around the child's left leg. The
mother caught the snake near the head,
when it unwound itself, and she then dis
patched it with hoe.j
\ few weeks ago, on the farm of Mr..
Eli Reno, of Chippewa township, Beaver
county, hawk alighted with the intention
If helping himself to some of Mr.. Renos
poultry. He was at once tackled by game
'ooster, of the Ginger Red species, and
urious fight between the hawk and rooster
,nsued. The conflict lasted for fully an
lour, at the expiration of which the hawk
ell over dead, and the rooster was left mas
er of the field.
A curious case of hereditary birth
marks is reported from Kentucky For
several generations the ancestors of Mr..
Alfred McCrooklin, of Spencer county, have
marked their hogs with a cross and slit in
he ear. The same stock has remained in
he family through the lapse of all these
Tears, and now the ear marks appear at the
birth of the piglings belonging to Mr..
McCrocklin. This saves him the trouble
If remarking his hogs.
1t is stated that singular disease pre-
rails among the cattle of Lebanon county.
Within few weeks number have gone
blind, some in one eye, but most of them
n both eyes. One farmer has twelve head,
some entirely blind and others partially so.
)ne calf, at three days old, never out of
he stable, lost its sight. On some farms
wo, three and four are victims to this dis
ase. The nerve of the eyes seem to die
rom within, and the eye becomes white.
1t may not be generally known that the
lickel deposit near the Gap, Lancaster
County, Pa, is considered the largest yet
discovered in the world, and the only de-
,osit of the ore worked in America The
nine is on the high dividing line between
hester and Pequa Valleys Besides nickel,
opper, iron and limestone are found in the
anne locality. Nickel was discovered here
bout the year 1856, though copper, which
) taken from the same mine, was known
n this locality seventy years ago. The ore
las a gray color, is very heavy, and SO hard
hat it is mined entirely by blasting. After
he ore has been broken into small frag-
nents it is put into kilns holding eighty to
inety tons each, and subjected to heat
reduced at first by the burning of small
uantity Of wood and continued by the
of tho axDallaJ ,,oS =, tban