The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-04-15
EDITORIAL SUMMARY.


The Rappahannock Bank, at Rappahan.
mock, Va, has ceased to exist.
Iowa holds Republican State Conven-
ton at Dos Moncs on tho 2ud of June.
A BILL has been introduced in tho Cana
dian Legislature fo- the protection Of spend
hrins.
We learn from Montreal, that the St. |
Lawrence is free Of ice, and that navigation |
is open.
The new English Ambassador. Lord Lyons,
arrived at Washington on the 7ih inst, on
board an English irigate.
TWELVE miles of submarine cable has
boon laid on tho Lake Shore route between
New Orleans anG Mobile.
An Albany boy of eighteen has beon sued
by an old maid of thirty three for leading
her from the path of rectltudo.
! a new Pouitontiary is to be erected in
/ Northern Indiana, tho prosont odifce being
oyorcrowded with " boarders
The Maryland Agricultural College is OK.
pected to ba so far advanced as to bo ready
for the reception of pupils next fall.
A FEW days since white man and negro
woman were killed by lightning, while sit.
ting under tree near Montgomery Ala.
MIR. J. S. HERRIcK has retired from
tho Portage County Democrat, which will
hereafter DO conducted by L. W. Hall g.
Son.
JENNY LIND is advertised to sing in Eng
land. 1t is said that her fortune has bScn
squandcrcd, aud that she lie going to try and
make another.
Ir is suited that tho ranks of the United
States army arc full, and that recruiting has
boon discontinued. This has not happened
before for 20 years.
The Ohio Legislative Committee re.
por. the last three State Treasurers
all defaulters Broslin admits that he
' concealed 1900, 900.
The canals of this State arc to be leased
at public auction, on the stops of the State
House, on the 18th Of August next, to the
highest bidder, for five years.
3 WHILE the Hon. Joshua X. Giddings wa
at Newark, VI, on Wednesday week, h
was presented with a cane mado from tn
: tilIor of the slave ship,Amistad.
~ The President has issued a proclamatio
authorizing extensive sales of public lands i
: Kansas and Nebraska during tho months G
I July, August and September next.
BY telegraph from Coburg, Canada Yves
wo learn that DIR. King was found guilty, o
: the 7th inst, OF poisoning his wife, and son
cnced TO be hanged on the 9th of juno mex
= We learn that Chas. A. Washburn, brt
thcr of tho three Washburns in Congress
T. has become tho leading editor of Reput
- - liean daily paper called the Times, in Sa
u. Frnncisco.
Is. We learn from Wisconsin. that the ele'
us Ion in that State, on the 9th inst. for Al
y, ;" sociate Judge Of the Supreme Court, resu
r. ed in the choice of Byron Paine, Republican
y. by at least 8, 900 majority.
no THE Administration papers propose Il
m lynching of Mr.. Abrams, of Honrico, for Il
in reason that he has announced himself as
- candidate for Congress, on tho platform
80 Emancipation in Virginia.
nc IT is asserted in reliable quarters in Was
,,h ington, that after the 30th September ne
he tho mails between Now York and San Fra
on cisco will be carried by tho Nicaragua
stoad of tho Panama route.
Di FROM the Tribune of Monday we lea
Mr. that the Yellow Fever arrived at the n,
bo Quarantine on tho previous day from r
'ge aud that in Cuba tho pestilence had col
o lne menced unusually early, nnd with cxtreI
70 vruence
IT is said that Con. George P. Morris {
,ns shines tho Consulship at Havre, which v
er rendered him by the President. Tho ina'
.oS 1uacy of tho salary, aud the arduous a
lbs confning nature of the duties of the Off
ber have decided him in this course.
ont WE learn from an exchange that Cover
i'n "a Morgan, of New York, refuses to comm
mt tho sentence of Mrs. Hartuug. He ref
iuld to the general aversion to hanging WON
run but believing tho prisoner guilty OF deli6
M M ate murder, he thinks that public justice
we'll as the safety of human life, demand
ood execution.
g. On tho 10th inst, panic was caused
the Catholic Church on 42nd Street, n.
D. from some of tho candles taking fire,
oaS tho people became so packed in pass
sne wey that before thoy could be oxtrica
O''y' upwards of 3O-mostly womon-were 10
'ne with their arms and legs brokon, and
anu othor injuries from which they cannot
sibly recover.
W We learn from the Ashtabula Teirgr
nun that young man accidentally shot hin
'Sa'y while hunting near that village on Fr
Inc last. The ball Of his gun entered at
- lot back of h,s right ear, aud passed obliq
''ooo' through the protuberance behind and u
sa''le it, carrying away part of the brain. /
Thcy ,y.i. of tho ,er, aldo followed. but the
IRON ferer s now doing we'll, and will prol
y ''o recover.
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! will, FRE IN BURroN.-We learn thai
OK Thursday of last week. the dwelling
II is corn house Of MIR. Elisha Chapman, in
ls the ton, wero destroyed by fire. MIR, q
IN on by the fro, four hundred bushels of pot'
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