The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-11-16
NEWS ITEMS.

Tue great tair IN lhilauelphlai io'
the benefit Of the Soldiers and Sal.
lors Home closed on Saturday night
TmE Pittsburg Commercial COM
mcnccd the week in new dress some
what enlarged aud improved in gene
raj appearance.
Two ballots for United States Sen
ator for the short term, have been had
by the South Carolina Legislature
without result
TnE majority for Governor stone,
the Union candidate in Iowa, will bc
nearly Seventeen Thousand, in spite
of the great combination to defeat
him,
TuE capture of rraguoyana with
its garrison of paraguyans, is an.
nounccd by the last arrival from BH
cnos Ayers. No other news of i'm
portanco.
GENs. MCCLELLAN aud BEArRE'
GARD, have il is said, rendered thciI
services to the Pope. Mcclellan
might make good commander cf 4
d" standing" army.
Tue Philadelphia Lciycr statc'
that Pennsylvania has furnished ! ,llt
officers for the Navy, and ono. tenth
of the vessels that have been in the
naval service during the war
TnE Chicago Tribune states that
during the week ending Saturday
New. ith, ~, ,2j3 hogs were receive,
at that point, against 81, OF, receive,
during the same week la't year.
IT is now officially announced tha
the number of men surrendered b,
the two rebel Generals, johnson m,
Lee, was Sixty.fvc thousand Lee
surrendered Twenty. eight thousand
aud johnson, Thiriy-scvcn thousand
TnE indianapolis JowH"i announ
ccs that ON the first of January next,
TINT paper enters upon it's i3d year,
aud that ut that time the publishers
propose to issue the JoWndl ns ,
puarto.
A Nrw counterfeit $50 legal tcndc
note has been extensively circulate,
| in eastern cities. The imitation is
good one, aud il is thought the Treas
ury Department will call in all tn
notes of that class.
TnE Canadians are much irightcn
ed by Fcnian demonstrations, aud th'
Tx General Master of Orangcmci
has called his followers to arms. Al
invasion of the Provinces by six thou
sand Fcuians is expected at once.
TuE Georgia Constitutional Con
vcntiou, at Millcdgeville, voted I
rcpudiatc the rebel war debt. On
hundred aud thirty.thrcc votes wcr
east for the rcpudiation and one hun
drcd and seventeen against.
/
TUX Mississippi Legislature propose
to set apart % per cent of the publ
debt to pay the State debt tax to b
levied for the support fdisoblcd Con
fcdcratc soldiers, and the widows am
children of soldiers killed in the wal
SoNE of the uusubducd rebels q
Somerset county, Maryland, are threat
cuing trouble at the approaching
election. If they are not pcrmittc,
to vote in defiance of the registration
law, they propose to siczc the bollo
boxes.
TnE latest rumor with regard t,
the admission OF Southern members
Of Congress is that semi official notice
(has been sent to the South 10 the Of
feet that mcmhcrs from States whicl
have rcpudiatcd the rcbe\ WAY deb
and adopted the constitutional amend
ment, will be allowed seats.
WISCONSIN papers record mo
= atrocious and cold bloodcd act of coi
bincd homacidc aud parricidc.
young man named John Stitcsky, 81
of u farmer in good circumstance
living in Caledonia, shot both h
father and mothcr, while they We
!, eating their evening meal, and the
- deliberately shot himself