The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-03
NO. 8.
There are nearly 1000 Indians in Florida.

mules every three months
There are $4,000 Sisters of Charity con-
nected with the Roman church.
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Go. run 146 Centennial tarins daily
4 catfish 21 inches long was lately caught
by a boy in Tulpehocken creek (Berks
county,.
1t is now said, as an apology for the dog
in the manger, that he wanted the straw
for his bed
One hundred and twenty thousand buffalo
were slaughtered on the northwestern plains
of British America the past year.
During the fiscal year ending June 80,
1876, 22,576 Chinese arrived in this coun-
try, 259 of whom only were females
There is to be a monster camp meeting
at Ocean Grove, near Long Branch, in
August, in which Moody and Sankey will
take part.
Two girls were carrying a pail of milk
in Carsville, Virginia, last week, when
stroke Of tightening killed one and stunned
the other.
Bernard n Boyle and Kate Boyle are
in prison at Pottsville, and William Colihan
at Mauch Chunk, for alleged perjury in the
Alollie Mcguire murder trials.
Chill will export, this year. about 30, 900
tons of wheat and 10000 tons of barley,
two-thirds of which will go to Europe and
about one-third to Bolivia and Peru.
An inebriate recently fell and struck
his head against a BARRIERS pole. On be-
ing raised from the ground, he asked:
"Whats zat woman wi stripe stockings
on got again me p
An evening or two ago Mr.. Philip Lessig,
of South Coventry township, Chester coun-
ty, caught an eel three feet long, which on
opening he found to contain a water snake
twelve inches long,
A merchant went home the other night
and said cheerfully to his wife, "Well my
dear, Eve failed at last" "Oh, that's
good y exclaimed the wife, with radiant
face. "Now we can go to the Centennial,
sure"
New York city has lost a great part of
It's jobbing and nearly all its tea trade Its
inalienabe interests appear to be banking,
fashion, beaux, arts, bellies letters and the
future manufacture Of gloves, millinery
and small wares, upon the scale of Paris.
In the Manatawny creek, near Griesemers-
vile, says the Reading Times, there has
existed for several years a club of unusual
large size, which has engaged the attention
of the sportsmen of that vicinity for long
time. 1t successfully resisted all efforts to
be taken by either nets, spears, hooks and
lines, shot gun or clubs, until few days
ago, when it was caught by Mr.. John
Whitman, who was fishing, with some lady
friends from Spring City, Chester county.
An examination of the fish showed that
one eye had been shot out and that it had
also been pierced through the head with
gig. Its escape and vitality were truly re-
markable. The fish measured nineteen
inches in lenght.
OF the crops in Indiana the Indian
apolis Journal bears this testimony:
The last few days of dry, warm weather
have been worth a great deal to Indiana,
and we may now count with certainty on
large and profitable crops of nearly every
thing. The wheat crop is saved 1t will
not be large, but fully an average crop.
Oats will be much above an average. The
hay crop will be many times larger than
last year. Corn never looked better and
the indications are good for an immense
yield OF all fruits except peaches there
will be very large yield, including small
fruits, both domestic and wild. Vegetables
of all kinds never were more abundant or
cheaper.
The Lancaster Express, speaking of the
crops in that section, says:
The farmers in this section, and through
out the country have reason to rejoice
The crops of wheat, hay and oats have been
excellent in Eastern Pennsylvania The
corn fields show splended growth. The
reports are encouraging in nearly all parts
of the West and South. Cotton promises
good yield Fruit is abundant Pota-
toes have fourished in spite of the bug
When the freshets of last year, sweeping
away the crops in the fertile plains of the
Mississippi Valley, are remembered, there
is sufficient cause for gratitude. In our
own county, the drought last summer re-
duced the yield Of hay and wheat far be-
low the average.
The River and Harbor bill, as it passed
the Democratic reform House, appro-
PIRATES about seven millions of dollars,
mainly for the Improvement of insignifi-
cant creeks and small rivers in the several
States, the most liberal slice being for
West Virginia, and for imaginary work on
inlets, bays and harbors on the lakes and
along the seacoast. ''This bill, as the
New York Herald says, ''shows the falsity
of the pretense" of economy which the
House has set up. To save seven Millions
by cutting down the wages of poor clerks
and letter carriers and by curtailing mail
facilities to fling it away in improving
Scrubgrass creek and the navigation of
Salt river, is not economy. 1t is simply
robbing worthy objects to squander the