The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1877-03-01

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THE length of the Lehigh canal is forty
eight miles
OVER 5000 people have joined the tenn
,orance movement in Trenton.
Stock cattle are selling at So per head
in Refuge county, Texas.
The aldermen in New York city receive
each $4,000 perannum.
Nickel has been found in Clinton coun-
~ Pa, in searching for coal.
Over 100000 bushels of corn await
shipment in Philadelphia.
In 1876, Luzerne sent 922 persons to
iail and 81 to the pcnitentiary.
Frederick Simon, of Scranton gave zoe
tons of coal to the poor of two wards in
january.
The total number of Indians living IL
New York State is 5,034. They are all
remnants of the Six Nations.
Delaware land Hudson Coal company
show profits of S308,000 for the past year,
and 5000, coo reduction of its debt.
Cheap non explosive oil from wood
chiefly pine, is now extracted in Sweden in
ff;een factories, with favorable results
Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Mercer,
Erie. Crawford, Venango aud Warren
counties were formed n years ago, on
March y, 1890.
Lchigh University, at Bethlehem, is to
be improved by the addition of library
building. 1t will be fine edifce elegant
in appearance and substantial in construc-
tiOn.
800 Pennsylvania families will settle in
Arkansas, between Conway and Ozark, on
the Little Rock AMI Fort Smith railroad
where land is selling at from So to Sl2
per acre.
A Norwich man calls himself on his
cud Temperance boot-makcr' The need
OF temperance boots is sapparent, for though
they re not generally drunk, it 5 Il notorious
fact that they're often very tight.
DURING the late deep snow in Tioga
county man constructed, for the amuse
mrnt Of his children, snow house thirty
feet high and twenty by ten, with appro-
pirate furniture. 1t has several windows
and has man Of snow to represent DR.
Kane also polar bear.
The Allentown Iron Company recently
instructed the superintendent Of their large
anime at New Texas to get everything in
readiness for a resumption Of operations
early in March. This mine usually EN-.
Ijoys a large number Of men, and a resump-
ton Of work in it will naturally make
things quite brisk in that locality.
4 pastoral letter from Bishop O'TIara
communicating the "Ancient Order OF
IIibcrnians' and directing the clergy to de
ny the members of that order the sacra-
mcnts. was read in all the Catholic churches
Of Scranton Diocese, Sunday. The denun-
cia'ion was unexpected and has produced a
sensation among the members of the order.
who for the past three years have been in
favor with the Church The Ancient Or
der has large membership in the Scran-
ton Diocese.
THEbody Of James r. Anderson a freight
conductor. was found on the PENNSYLVANIA
railroad a short distance east of Harrisburg
on Thursday last. He was arrested a few
weeks since for passing counterfeit $50
greerhacks. Anderson, when arraigned
FIR passing counterfeit money, confessed
j. crime. and gave the names of several
persons who he alleged furnished him with
the bogus money II is believed Anderson
WIS thrown on the track by one of the
men whom he had accused TO get him out
Of the way
An astounding discovery has recently
been made to the effect that all the mar
rage ceremonies performed in Pennsylvania,
on Sunday, have been illegal and conse-
Hnently are not binding, so SAYS an act
passed in l777, lately discovered among
the archives Of Harrisburg. According
TO this discovery, there are thousands OF
people living in the State in open violation
OF law but we would advise them to hold
on to their former fidelity, and not GO about
seeking divorces without physical cause !;
such as surplus broomage, hootage, &c.
ne ohippenshUrg News says singular
incident occurred at the residence of John
lundt, near that place. The female mem
hefs CT the family were about 20 commence
She quilting Of a cotton bed spread and
Mrs. Iundt, in order to make the cotton
more compact, began to pat it, or compress
u with her hands, when it suddenly ignited
and exploded with loud noise, and tore
The entire fabric into shreds As matter
OF course the household was thrown into
me greatest confusion and CONSERVATION
NO cause, as yet can be assigned for this
Singular occurrence.
HE postal service Of only nine States
SHOWS balance on the right side of the
l9oger. Seven Of the are New Hamp-I
Shire Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, Con
nectlcut, New York New Jersey and Penn
S5LyanIa. S,ly Alaska is on the list, with its
little drible of S2,G9 for a years letter
postage 50 aTn Wvoy,1,,, oDd +bo D;s. r;ot