The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-05-18
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One more ucat1 from cnOlera ~
the New York quarantine, Sunday
No new cases we're repoted. 'ii
The military force now in Virginia
consists OF forty-four companies OF
regular troops, numbering in the ag-
gregnte about two thousand men.
MAssILLoN, IN STARK COUNTY
pays neriy six thousand dollars an.
nually towards the public schools Of
that place, co.
THE LIMA GAZETTE states that
during the year 1866, over two hun.
dred houses will be erected in that
place.
The Colorado bill was vetoed Tues
day by the President. This was ex.
pected from the fact that the Senator'S
elected were understood not to be
in favor of "my policy"
A church in Henry county, Ind. =,
was burned on Wednesday evening
last, because colored clergyman
had preached there on the invitation
of the congregation. There is con.
siderable excitement over the matter.
II has been officially reported to
General Howard that Generals Full
lerton and Steednan would hardly lis
ten to the testimony of Union man
or negro, unless charges were
against the Frcedmen's Bureau while
every rebel complaint is carefully lis
tened to.
A Pacific paper says: "The Ia
test news from Montana is doleful
enough-tl ousands of men vainly
prospecting for digging; nothing pay.
ing over two dollars per day; men
constantly freezing TO death; tea four
dollars per pound; -four thirty dollars
per hundred; men living on bread and
water or venison straight"
The Delaware Gazette says the
apple crop in that County will be i'm
mense. Pears, ounces, plums, and
the more hardy varieties OF cherries,
also look well. Grapes are promis.
ing.
Gen. Stoneman has organized n
commission, composed of three army
officers and an cx-reblc General, to in
vestigatc the causes OF the Memphis
massacre. Gen. Fisk has also gone to
Memphis to inquire into the subject.
The atrocities will doubtless, be fully
exposed, and it is to be hoped the
principal offenders will be promptly
punished.
A call numerously signed, has. been
published for Convention of Ohio
Wool Dealers, of Northern Ohio, to
meet at Cleveland, Wednesday, May
23d, for the purpose Of adopting
measures for improving the condition
of Ohio wool when sent to market
and the consideration ofother matters
connected with this interest.
The body of the late PRESTON
KING, Collector # the port Of New
York, was discovered Monday in New
York harbor. Mr. King, it will he
remembered, committed suicide last
November, but although strenuous
exertions were made to recover his
body at the time, they were unsuc.
cessiul. The body was not so much
bloated, nor so decomposed as II
would have been reasonable to expect
from the long time it had remained in
the water.
A CoLoRED MAN NAMED HARDER,
formerly slave belonging to eX-Gen
Hardee, Of the rebel army, has large
grocery store, three larges warehouses.
and two wharves at Savannah, Ga
lie is also the agent of company ol
colored men, who have purchased
and will run steamboa; from Charles
ton to Florida, touching at different
poilts along the coast.
According to Mississippi papers
Grenada is not n comfortable place
for the friends of the freedmen. 1t is
stated that the Bureau teachers are
frequently in receipt OF threatening
letters, and one night recently an
attack was made on the residence OF
a female teacher, bat the assailants
retired without doing any particular
harm.
II is said that James Buchanan
appears more cheerful now then he
has for six years, and looks ten years
younger then he did when he retired
from the White House caused by
the prospect that his Administration
will not 60 down to posterity as the
most disgracefuly one of all the
American Presidents.-Ran Chief
The last issue Of the Daily Citizen
of Macon, winds up an article OF
JET, Davis trial, with the following
I'VE have no idea he can ever bC
convicted of treason by jury of his
peers, and further, If the conviction
results from packed jury OF his enc,
mics, we have received a telegram
from over the River Jordan, that he
never will be hung. Let the friends oil
the patriot Davis take courage"
A MASONIC FACT - DIR. r. G.. Scot,
Past Grand Master, in an address de.
livered few years ago made the fol
lowing staten ent: From sources OF
information on which l entirely RELY,
| state the fact that fifty at least OF
those who signed the Declaration of
independence were Masons, and the
same history informs us that every
Major General of the Revolutionary
army was O Mason, save one, and
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