The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-02-16
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a great religious awakening is re.
ported in indianapolis. The churches
Of various denomination are open
daily, and in many instances prove
too small for the numbers that throng
in attendance. a temperance reform
is also in progress, and the new tenn
perance organ will appear for the first
time this week.
Monday, the anniversary of Mr..
Lincoln's birth, and the day set apart
for the memorial exercises, Congress
did no business, except, after list
ening to Mr.. Bancroft's oration, to
pass vote of thanks to the orator,
and make provision for the printing
of his address.
The Prince OF Wales has sent a
handsome bridal present to Mrs. Hen
ry johnson, me Harriet Lane, in ac.
acknowledgement of the courtesies ten
dcred him at the White House while
that lady presided there.
Fifteen different proclamations
have been issued by Gov. Bramlette,
of Ky, in the past few months, of.
fering rewards tor the apprehension
of murderers alone.
The Ohio members OF congress
have addressed note to the Inter.
nal Revenue Commissioners, inviting
them to VISIT Ohio and inspect the
tobacco interests Of that State.
DIR. J. W. Hughes, who deserted
his wife, decoyed girl into y pre-.
tended marriage, and then murdered
her, was executed at Cleveland Fri.
day. On Thursday morning he at
tempted to commit suicide by taking
morphine, but the quantity swallowed
was so large rs TO produce vomiting,
and his object was thus defeated.
There is an organized band of
horse thieves in Western Mississir-
pi. They have relay posts every
twelve miles, and when n horse is
stolen at either terminus of the line,
he is ridden rapidly TO the first post
by one rider, who procures another
horse and returns, and is therefore
never absent long enough to create
suspicion as to himself In the neigh
borhood from which the horse is sto.
len. He is thus passed from post to
to post, and finally sold.
The Commissioner Of the informal
Revenue Department, in reply TO
question of q citizen of Gri,wold,
Conn, whether it is peddling to sell
from the same load Mt different places,
butter. cheese, charcoal, &c, OF ones
produce, has decided that q farmer
need not take out license for sell
ing his own produce in the manner
of q pcddler, unless he sells produce
which he has manufactured under the
license of Il manufacturer.
We find the marvellous story in an
Eastern paper that on Sunday night
last some body watchers at Norwalk,
Conn, dug up the body Of a young
lady who had been buried that after
noon, and succeeded beyond their
She had been buried
while in a cataleptic fit, and upon be-
ing exposed to the night air, anima-
Li0u was restored. The resurrection
lists ned, and she walked home. Her.
parents refused to admit her, helicv
ing her to be ghost. She then went
TO the house Off young man to whom
she was engaged. lie took her in,
and on Monday morning they were
The Dayton Journal says that it
has been Informed by an engineer
on the Dayton Il Michigan Railroad,
that twcnty-seyen children were
drowned in the reservoir at Celina,
Ohio, on Wedne sday. They were at
school, in the vicinity of the
reservoir, and at noon all the schol-
ars but two-twcnty- seven in mum
ber-went on the ice to slide, when
it broke with them, the whole party
drowned before help could reach
them. The engineer was told the
story at Wapakoneta, and believed
his information TO be reliable.
The Boston Journal says: "The
last steamer brought the intelligence
that Professor Agassiz's explorations
on the main stream of the Amazon
alone had resulted in the discovery
of no less than ], ,lG3 species of fish,
which is greater number than exists
in the Mediterranean. In the great
branches of the Amazon-the Mad
eria g 200 miles long), the Purus
l,I00 miles long), the Rio Negro,
Tapajos, Tocantius, lea and Japuria
each more than a thousand miles
long), it is estimated that there are
several hundred more species, differ
ing from those of the main stream.
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