The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-05-06
EDITORIAL SUMMARY.
WE regret to learn that Mr.. Sumner is

the City Council Of Cleveland.
PEEsIpHNr PIERCE and lady, at the
last accounts, were in Rome. The health |
Of Mrs. p. was much improved.
THK steamer Eolia, bound from 81.
Loais to St. Paul, sunk in Lake Pepin, on
the 99th ult, Four persons, names un-
known, were drowned.
The Crawford House, White Mountains,
was destroyed by fire on Tuesday last II
was insured for $4,000, and will be imme.
diateIy rebuilt.
A CONVENTION Of the Republicans Of
Cuynhoga County, to appoint delegates
to the State Convention, will be held in
Cleveland, on the 98lh inst.
GEN. CAss has again been prostrated by
an attack of illness, but there is said to be
every prospect that he will recover.
Ir is said that 81 100000 damages has
been done by the crevssse OH tho plantations
of Mossrs BOuligny and Ganuchsau, thirty
five mos above Now Orleans.
TIE Cincinnati Gazstts proposes The
nomination by the Republicans, Of Hon.
VIM. Slade, Of Cuyahogs County, for
the office Of Lieut.. Governor, and the
Cleveland Leader heartily concurs In
the proposal.
HORACE GREELEY is to start on tho 10th
inst, for California, by way Of the Gold
Mines, Utah, and the Great Basin, slso vis-
itng Oregon. He will return across the
= Continent, or by the lsthmus, as circum-
s stances shall dictate, aud reach homo some
e time in September.
WITS OF Error have been granted by the
Supreme Court, in the cases OF James Burns
sentenced to DO hung on tho 9th inst., tor
the murder of Michael Burke in Cincinnati
and Charles Cook aud Joseph Setter, now
! imprisoned in tho PenitentiLry for the mur-
dor OF Kate Bureau.
r A STATE Convention of Teachers Of Sun.
= day Schools, is be held in Cincinnati, Oh
I tho llth and l2th OF this month. The
!, Chdrens Meetings WILL DO held ou the al
ternoon Of the 18th, and tho Sunday schools
VI bhC SIt1p "ishOub VI SOlOtg VI
:, denomination, arc invited to join in the pro
cossion and mass meetings. The Gdzen
says that oil the Railroad Companies in til,
" State, except the Cleveland s. Columbus
n have agreed to return delegates who pa,
J. full fare going,) free of charge.
~ Hon THOMAS NJ. DRAKE was drowned n
ID GAINESVILLE, on Sunday last. Ii is suppose
se that no committed suicide, as he had bee
NJ deraDged for several weeks
of A HoRRID murder was committed in tn
II. town of Sand Lake, about ID miles free
g. Troy, NY. on Sunday last. An old na
-; John Beding beat out his daughter Girls
90 liana's brains with a hammer. He ws
" laboring under fit Of insanity, and in
ar agined that his daughter was possessed .
10 a devil. The murdered girl was about |
-, years old.
ii. THE Oswego Times Of the 2lst inst
for says AT about & o'clock last evening,
ne magnificent sight attracted our attentio
ia The peculiar state OF the almosphe
ara caused relraction which presented Il
- Canada Shore, which seemed but fe
~ miles distant. The trees and beach we
on distinctly visible, and the phenomena W
icv one Of unusual beauty in every particula
ar The Charleston Is. g. Mercury sa
.in, Of the next Presidential Conventio
"unless it is limited exclusively to del
,,r, gates from the South, it will be no Co
ou vention OF the Democratic party" I'll
49,. Mercury is unreasonable there are tho
n,s sands of good Democrats at the Mort
-, whom the South need not fear 10 trust.
- A DIsPATCu from Now York of tho 80 ins
states that Capt. Green of the ship Sin
fiold, just arrived in that city from HonoIu
ann reports that on the morning of April 26
vs ho experienced three successive shocks of
earthquake, occurring at intervals OF abo
, an hour apart. In length and severity
oe' shock they eIcelled anything of the XII
'he over experienced before.
OH The receipts of the United States Trol
md ury for the quarter ending Apil lst., u
But reported at nearly twenty millions and
ate half including upwards OF thirteen millio
his from customs and between eight and nj
for millions from the loan OF 1858 The expe
on, dturcs tor the samo period, were noal
:. eight millions, including nearly three n
lions for redemption oftreasury notoS, issu
'n' under tho act oI December. 1857.
MI TIE RsvennS Democrat speaks thus
ara the fruit crop in Portage County :-Nev
cy' have we seen fruit trees so full OF blossol
10 as this season. The Cherry, Plu
low Peach and early apple trees are full
.oId blossoms, the winter fruit does not col
,,oa forward with SO much promise. OF ea
''so fruit there will no doubt be an unusl
ana abundance, of the winter apples howeV
'bls the supply may be somewhat limited.
'ess A FATAL tragedy took place in Soul
ned welhest, Mass, on Monday morning la
r. about one o'clock. Mr.. Eben S. Wa
- 49, was shot dead with gun, by his SON
wa" law, Samuel Fish, Fish then tried
1gh shoot himself, but the gun missed f
{ nc The murderer frs. alarmed the family
,lrouinu hricLa throuuh tIe U;pJo n