The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-03-23

SIdSIu.
The latest returns indicate that Cheney
majority will be 5000, that the Republi-
cans will have of the 5 Councillors, 9 off
the II Senators, and % to 80 majority in
the House Returns from 234 towns gave
Cheney majority of 3347. Ten towns,
which gave vote of 100 last year, re-
mained to be heard from The total vote
of the State is nearly 81 900, which is about
1900 more than that of last year, and the
largest ever cast in New Hampshire.
The wheat in Mercer county has not been
injured by the unEavorable winter.
Frank Scrubb, of New Jersey, and his
family, live on dogs meat, because they
like it.
A Chester county physician has treated
thirty-one cases of hydrophobia since the
first of January.
They are already making sandwiches to
be sold at the Centennial restaurants.
They will be kept in sawbust until May 10.
IF you are a soldiers widow and marry
again, you, Of course, lose your pension
but if you are divorced you cannot have
your name restored to the pension roll
Uncle Sam has just said SO.
The best way to 90 to California is to re-
main at home. All classes Of trade, accor-
ding to the San Francisco Ne,os Letter, are
oyerstocked in that city 1t accuses the
newspapers Of the Pacific slope of lying in
this respect, and calls it crime to bring
immigrants to the country under false pre-
lenses.
There are at present FIVE hundred and
twenty inmates in the Berks county aims
house. There were as many as FIVE hun
dred and eighty-Gve in at one time this
season. Since the first Of January TWEEN
ty-fve steers Lave been killed for the
inmates Of this institution.
General Simon Cameron certifes that the
Pottsvile National Light Infantry was the
first company OF volunteers whose services
were offered for the defense Of the national
capital in 1861. The company telcgraphed
to the War Department an offer of its ser
vices on the 18th of April, and arrived at
Washington on the 18th.
Young man, never trife with the heart
of pure and innocent girl A gentleman
In town, after visiting bashful young
lady two years, was asked his intentions
and when ne gave an evasive answer she
hit him on the head with potato masher,
and it cost him two dollars to get bis best
silk altered 10 fit the strange shape his
head assumcd.-Norristotc HeraH.
The worst feature of the failure of
Daniel Drew is the fact that it will very
seriously affect some institutions of learn
ing of which he has been patron The
Drew Theological Seminary OF New Jersey,
which was virtually built by him, has re-
lied for It's support upon seventeen thou
sand FIVE hundred dollars annually, re-
ceived from a quarter of million of dol, |
lars set apart by him for the maintenance
Of the seminary. This sum is now swept
away by his failure, and Methodists of
wealth must raise the funds or there will
be nothing 20 Pay the faculty with.
Fortune smiles upon PhenizyilIe, Chos-
ter county, Pa. The hdepea"ent P,icnir,
published at that place, says that ''the
hard times are over, so far as Phmnixyiile !
is concerned, in its dependence upon
steady work in the Phoenix Iron Works,
which are running on double time, with
plenty Of orders in prospect.
Three citizens presented the Supcrin-
tendent of the Pottstown Gas Company
with watch chain, because their gas bills
"were less than the corresponding quarter
for last year" The chain is worth twenty
five cents pound, and the presentation
was evidently intended as a neat piece Of
sarcasm. Gas consumers are paying four
dollars per thousand feet, and a great hue
and cry is going up in consequence of these
high rates.
All Washington is agog again about
woman. This time the female is kept
close prisoner at Wizards Hotel until such
times as the Naval Committee shall exam
inc her as a witness, and meanwhile is suf-
fercd to be interviewed only by the Chair
man Of that committed The quid-nuncs
have already settled that she is a woman in
the Secor claim case, and the woman in the
French arms business, and the woman in
all the other questionable transactions talked
about for the past six or eight years.
When she has told her story, and there
has been the inevitable sensation about it,
there will be yet another woman in the
case, the next case, namely, that of the
safe-burglary.
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