The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-10-11
NEWS ITEMS.


teen thousand eight hundred claims filed
for bounty lands Under acl of March 81
'55. of which $1,000 were filed 10 March,
10000 in April, and as 900 in May
Thus far the commissioner of pensions
has only been able to issue about 80 ,000
warrants of all sizes, and at the rate at
which they are now issuing warrants ii
viii take over two years 10 complete the
cases on hand. Claimants who are anx-
iously awaiting the receipt of their war.
rants will have to be patent. No doubt
Congress will devise some means at its
ensuing session for speedier execution
of the law.
There are in circulation genuine bills
with counterfeit signatures, of the demon
nations Of los, 5s, 3S and Is of the
Ohio Slate Stock banks These hills we
are informed, were stolen from tho En-
graver's office, in Cincinnati, Ohio We
are not advised Of what particular banks
they represent except the Bank OF Ma.
rion, and they have new plate, and have
retired nearly all the issue. Much eau
ton is necessary in taking money of the
State Stock Banks, lest some of the for
ged should be among it.--Ant. Mel.
The Lake Superior Miner says: A fa-
tai accident occurred at the Nebraska
Nine" about two weeks since, which re-
suited in the death of miner named VIM.
Collier Mr. G. was blasting in an an,
clent pit, and the explosion of the blast
caused the rock above 10 fall upon him,
killing him almost Instantly, He was lit.
orally crushed, being buried beneath
more than six tons of rock.
The Custom House officers of Boston
are compelled to keep bright look out
for smuggling by the British steamers.-
BY the America chest belonging to a
city miIliner was seized, and it was found
to contain large amount of duible goods
The lady importer.extra was examined
by lady inspector, and quantity OF 9th
er goods found concealed about her per-
son.
A locomotive, built to burn anthracite
coal has been running hundred miles
a day on the Reading Railroad, for the
past four weeks, and her performance is
so satisfactory, that good Judges on the
road think her the best Tor passengers
they have ever known. She has abun.
dance of steam. and throws no dirt nor
sparks, and makes saving Of 43 per
cent.
The steamship Adriatic now being built
for the Collins line of steamers, will be
when completed, the largest and most
magnificent vessel afoat. She will meas.
ure five thousand six hundred tuns; her
length will be three hundred and f.rty-
five feet on the broad line ; depth of hold
thirty three feet; breadth of beam fifty
feet. ......
The yellow fever is abatiog at Norfolk
and Portsmouth. At the former place
there were / deaths on Monday and q
on Tuesday. AT the latter there were
no deaths on Monday and 3 on Tuesday.
The most of these were at the Aims
House. and among the eolored peope.
The I 9th birth day of the Rev. Mr..
john Sawyer, Of Bangor, Me-. is to be
celebrated in that city on the 9th of DC
lober, with appropriate ceremonies, in
which the aged clergyman himself will
participate.
A letter from St. Perersburgh, of the
5Olh ult., in the Constitutional, says
Bankruptcies here-the Tribunal has
declared twenty to-day"
The President has appointed Geo. W.
Hopkins, of Virginia, Democrat, to be
ChleI Justice in the Circuit Court of the
District of Columbia, in the place of
Judge Crdnch, deceased.
A fright'ul explosion recently took
place III a mine near Pottsville, Pa, by
which five persons were killed and sew
'rel others wounded, The full particu-
dIS nave not YET tTanSplred.
Manchester, the Cincinnati financer.
las been arrested in San francisco, un
ier warrant granted on the authority of
requis ton from the Governor of Ohio,
.harged with forging two notes OF 668
lolarS each.
A gentleman writing from Cuba on the
'th inst, says that the crop now growing
IN the island of Cuba will probably be
he largest ever gathered on the island. ,
The grain was already grown, and only
,aitlng for the concentration OF juice
Nothing but a tornado can defeat the
oPes OF the planter. ,
The sale of the Clinton House, on c
aturday last, will not, we learn, inter t
IRE with the present arrangements OF
lie house. The popular Capt, BARNEY
ill continues as its head.-Ant. Met
When the news OF Santa Anna's flight il
cached Pampico there was a general n
nging OF bells. A 'new order of things !,
as Immediately established under a p
overnment appointed by Carrera. il
A retail merchant in Buffalo. says 81
at his business increased from $11 200 I,
S37 900 in a single year, by adopting
thorough system Of advertising. g
The Mobile Tribune says, flour is sci. @
% there for IS per barrel, and is con. u