Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-07-07


ing the four years of the late adminstra- |
ton, more land was ceded by the general
government for internal improvement and
other legitimate purposes than n third of
France, and still we retain public domain
equal to the entire area of Europe.
A CLA1M.--The whole town of Law
renee, in Kansas territory, is claimed by
Robert Robiaile, Wyandot Indian; and
landholders have been notified by the Re
ceiver and Registrar of the land-office at
Lecomplon that they would offer proof in
support of his claim on the 10Th of May.
He claims the location by a reservation
granted him in the treaties of / $40 and
1855 by and between the United States
and the Wyandott tribe of Indians.
WHERE is THE PEOPLES MoNEY?-
Here is word from the Baltimore Sun:
"We will simply state" says the Sun,
''that Mr.. B. is known to have been the
purchaser, and is at present the ostensible
proprietor of the whole or a majority of
the stock of two Of our Maryland Banks,
viz: the Greensborough Bank, of Caroline
county, and the Cumberland Savings Bank
of Allegheny county. We have not heard
that the latter has been conducted other
wise than efficiently, or that the former is
not at present correctly managed. What
was its doubtful character formerly is well
known"
ENCOURAGE Your OwN-The true way
to build up city and enlarge its interests
is for the citizens to patronize each other.
1t is poor policy for man to go away
from home with his money, if he has any,
to spend for articles that he can get at
home. If the same thing were done with
those who practise this policy, they would
soon be compelled to quit business them
selves. Better pay even little more for
an article and encourage your own neigh
bors; they spend their money with us;
their interests are Identical with ours; and
it is mean and sordid to patronize those
who have no identity with us, because a
trifle may seem to be saved thereby. But
it is not saved, in the end. 1t is losing
business, and if followed up, soon reacts
upon those who practice it.
An English naturalist has shown that
pair of rats will raise thirteen families of
young, numbering eight each, in three
years, and that the young ones "'come to
years of-discretion and marry at the age
of six weeks, and in their turn rear fami-
lies. Hence it is possible for pair of
these vermin in three years to become the
progenitors and patriarchs of rat family
numbering 658, sos.
A KANSAS JUDGE George
B. Clayton, real estate broker and gen
eral land agent at Claytonville, Kansas,
and, withal, Judge of one of the bogus
Border Ruffian Courts, in that territory,
was arrested in Chicago recently, on the
charge of issuing spurious bank notes.
1t appears that Mr.. Clayton, in purchas-
ing passage ticket at the office of the
Chicago and st. Louis Rail Dad, offered
in payment therefor what purported to be
bank notes of the denomination of SIS
each; but which were in reality shinplas-
ters, and of no value whatever He had
about $45 in amount of these spurious
bills upon his person. He was committed
for trial.
THE UNION SAFE.-At gathering of
the railroad excursionists at Cincinnati re-
Gently, Tom Marshall. of Kentucky, in
one of his Characteristic speeches, ridicued
Benton's fears about the dissolution of the
Union, and said he had been defeated for
Congress himself aud it had not dissolved
the Union. 1t was great blunder on the
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country got along about as we'll as if he
had been elected.
There is place in Pennsylvania known
as Treverton Manor, which has been de-
scribed as being covered with stones, and
under each stone there were fifteen rattle
snakes; and nothing but hemlock knots
and huckleberries were produced in addi-
ton to stones and rattlesnakes."
STATE CAPITAL GRoUNDs.-The ugly,
hifleous, high, black, board fence, that has
withstood the winds and the storms for
eighteen years, and has disigured the CEN
ter part of our city for so long a time, at
last is being torn away, and we now begin
to have a fair view of the magnificent pro-
portions of the State House, and of the
spacious beauty of the state capital grounds.
columbus Gazette.
COUNSEL FOR STATE TREAsURERs.-
We understand that Judge Thurman, Col.
: Swayne and Judge Warden have been re-
tanned as counsel for Messrs. Breslin and
Gibson, late Treasurers.
Gov. MEDARY.-A suit has been brought
against this gentleman for $3.50, 900, he
, being one of the sureties upon the bond OF
John G. Breslin.
The defalcation in the State Treasury
will be brought to the notice of the Grand
Jury of Franklin county next week, and
we have no doubt but that true bills will
be found against Messrs. Bres!in and Glib
son, the defaulting Treasurers. Criminal
prosecutions will then be commenced
against them Columbus Gazette.
/ In a western village, on Sunday lately,
when the ''plate' was being passed round
in one of the churches, a gentleman said
: to the collector go on, Pm dead head
I've got pass"
SPACE ANN1HILATED.-The iron horse
now pursues his way, without stop or i'm