The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-04-12
News items.

VIM. G. Gano was arrested in Gin
cinna,i on Thursday, on the charge oil
abstracling several letters from the Post
Office, said letters containing money.
Oak wood is selling in Washington
City at 800 per cord.
Hay is selling in Buffalo at $4,000 per
ion.
The Konw. Nothings have carried the
city of Richmond at the late corporation
election, by 1928 majority.
The steamer jamestown sailed from
Norfnlk with sealed orders on the 9th.
It is said it will proceed at once 10 la.
vana. Perhaps something is in the
wind.
Sixty.three cases Of yellow leayer were
transferred from the Government Ship
Columbia, to the Naval Hospital at Nor,
folk.
Sixteen millions Of bushels of potatoes
are annually raised in New.York.
The City Directory Of London for
1856, contains 2 500 large octave pages
1t gives the addresses Of l4l 900 persons
and firms, ..-.
Flour is selling at Council Bluff, Iowa
at from five to six dollars barrel, Pota-
toes at seventy five cents d bushe.
The steamer San JaciatO has bsen
ordered 10 the Gulf Of Mexico. She is
the U. S. Flag Ship Of the Home Squad.
ron.
The New.York House of Representa-
tves has agreed to the Senate amend
ments to the Temperance bill. The Gov
ernor will sign it, aud it will be the law
The bill passed the Senate by vote oI
81 to II. The amendments of the SEN
ate were concurred in BY vote of 90 tc
as.
Vessels to the value of $265,000 are
on the stocks at Cleveland.
The Wisconsin Legislature has ad'
iourned The Governor has vetoed the
temperance law, and the question re
mains open till the next session.
The recent Temperance law was test
ed in Davenport, Iowa, a short tim
since, and was sustained by 265 ajOrity
The despatch farther says that Temper
ance has 800 majority in that county
and 5000 in the State.
Ii is said that Secretary Marcy ha
sent word TO the u. S. Consul at Havana
that if a drop Of American blood wa
spilled in the present difficulties in Gu
ba, this Government would not be an
swerable for the result.
The House of Representatives o
Massachusetts has passed bill prohibi
ling the exclusion Of colored chilcrel
from the common schools Of that State
1t will probably pass the Senate.
The sons Of" Sam" in New Haveu
fired 81 guns on the evening Of the 4th
in honor OF their victory in Connecticut
The Pope is about to erect q coIossa
statue of the Virgin Mary at Rome, il
celebration oftho triumph of the Immac
ulate Conception dogma. Three hun
dred medals are 10 be struck Of virgi
Australian gold.
| The Governor has appointed E. I
| Wilder, of Painesvillp, to fill the vacan
cy occasoned by the resignation {
Reuben Hitchcock as District Judge
Mr.. Wilder was the Nebraska cand
date for Congress last fall.
r Fourteen passenger cars came int
Cleveland from the east, on W ednesdaj
filled with travellers Tor The West.
The .Nothings carried the cit
election in Ogdensburgh, EImira, an
Schenectady.
The Alton correspondent Of the s.
Louis Republican says, the Wheat Gro
looks finely in that section of Illinois
Wheat is now see per bushel, an un
precedented price in that land of grain
Mrs. Amelia Boomer, and Aun
Fanny" Gage lectured to the people G
ST, Louis, on Tuesday evening, OIL
"W Women's Rights"