The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-05-25
The N ewS.

The Firemen OF Bucyrus are max
ing an effort to have grand celebra-
tion on the 4th of July.
Another Newland-Evans case is
reported in Jasper county, where a
farmer shot, on Friday last, the Sc
ducer Of his daughter.
A woman ninety years old was
brought before the Boston Police
last week for assault and battery.
The Legislature of Ohio has pass
cd bill which debars any one excep-
ting physician in the line Of his
duty, to sell liquor TO minor, or a
person already intoxicated. Let the
law be strictly executed
The Washington correspondent
of the Richmond Republic, who, by
the way, is n western man, in letter
to that journal, advises the country
to pray for the speedy advent of the
Cholera, "for upon the first well au-
thenticated case" he says, Congress
will adjourn, and the President be
left to govern the nation"
Intelligence from Montgomery, Ala,
represents fearful destitution there.
AS many rs three hundred women
have been seen at one time crowded
around the Court House, waiting for
the rations that are furnished them
/ by Government.
The food in the Missouri river is
more protracted than any that has oc.
cured since lS45, and has been pro-
ductive OF great damage.
In the first four months Of the pre-.
sent year over $4,000 emigrants have
arrived, up to the middle of April the
whole number was 65,Sl3. 1t is es.
timated that the total immigration OF
1866 will amount to nearly 2OO,O 900.
The military and civil authorities of
Louisiana are providing for the relief
of the sufferers by the late flo oil in
that State.
The Maine Farmer states that
manufacture Of printing paper from
poplar wood is being carried on very
extensively in that State.
George w. Pridham, of Portland,
Me-, a painter at the repair shop OF
the Grand Trunk railroad, while en-.
gagged in painting the inside OF q ten.
der, suddenly fell, and assumed the
appearance of man deeply intox.
icatcd. He was taken home, and
soon after went into commissions, at.
tended 10y lockjaw. a physician was
called, who decided that his condition
was the result Of inhaling the poison
ous yapor from the naphtha IN 1.-THE
paint.
Within the last two weeks seven
horse thieves have been killed near
Jerseyville, Ill, by some person or
persons unknown. That is summa-
ry way to dispose of that class Of
seoundrels.
The Grant House in Franklin, Penn
was destroyed by fire early Saturday
morning. Three lives were lost. The
fire was probable caused by incends
iaries for the purpose Of plundering
the building. The loss will amount
" sixty thousand dollars. on which
there is an insurance of thirty thou
sand dollars.
The little tax of one cent upon
each box of matches produced last
year throughout the United States
about 81 800, 900, or enough to arm,
transport and keep in the field 1900
men.
A Young woman named Gunter,
residing in Overton county, Tennes
see, killed two outlaws few days age
while they were beating her father.
Her weapon was a hatchet
Important news from the Pacific
coast of South America. The Span.
ish fleet has been repulsed in an at
tack upon the Peruvian fort of Call.
40, two of the vessels being disabled
and the Admiral reported wounded
The expedition against Callao ren.
dered necessary the suspension oi
the blockade Of Valparaiso.
Col. Jacques, on trial for murder at
Louisville, has been acquitted.
A meeting Of the Johnson Club at
Philadelphia was held on Saturday
evening, to which Secretaries Harlan
and McCulloch were invited. Nei-
ther attended, but while the latt n
expressed his warm approval of the
objects of the meeting, the former
confined himself to a mere statement
Of his inability to be present.
All goes smoothly with the new
Atlantic cable. 1t is now coiling at
the rate of two miles an hour, in the
Great Eastern. The Amethyst hulk
is moored along side the great ship oil
Sheerness. while the Iris is laden in
her turn at Greenwich and will sup,
ply the Amethyst's place as soon as
the latter Is emptied. Thus, maniac.
ture and stowage go on concurrently,
and at the moment one part of the
great wire is receiving its elementary
coating Of ChattersOn's compound,
or perhaps spun at birmingham, other
portions are laid down in the great
ship ready for the final paying out.
The attempted assassination of the
Emperor Alexander turns out to be q
much more serious affair than the