The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1866-01-25
NEWS ITEMS.

view 1Ork, ana the rates quoted are
usually at 5@6 per cent on all loans
A CONCERT, for the benefit Of Stone
wall Jaekson's widow in Richmond
last week, ncttcd 1854.
The New Orleans Delta thinks il
ominous that pontoon trains have been
ordered to the Rio Grando.
VERA CRuz papers regard the out.
break of hostiliies between the Uni.
ted States and France as iuevitabl,
and only question of time.
The cotton crop of Illinois for the
year 1865 amounts to three thousand
bales, worth over half million dol.
lars.
A WASHINGTON dispatch snys the
iGovornmcnt will notify our officers
on the Rio Grande that strict neu-
troliiy must be preserved.
SENIOR ROMERO, tic Mexican Min.
lister at Warrington, refuses to cred
it the report of the withdrawal of
French troops from Mexico.
WIN. O'HARRA, Of La Porto, Indi.
ana had his pocket picked of $3.50 in
money, and notes to the value of ST.
600, at Erie, on Thursday evening.
The New York HcroM says Ger.
Gordon Granger proposes to resign.
lie has been in the service twenty
one consecutive years.
The Fenian Senate met in New
York on Saturday to try the Senators
who went over to the O'Mahony fac.
ton.
lT is rumorcd nt Detroit that Gen.
Carl Schurz will be editor of the Post,
the new Republican paper about be-
ing started in that city.
GUERILLA operations have con
menced in Ireland. A train contain
ing the Lord-Licutenant was fred at,
near Mullenger, by somc unknown
persons. ..,tI
In Minnesota two hundred and
ten miles of railroad have been com.
'pletcd, 1872 miles graded, and it is es-
timatcd that i1i miles will be com.
plcted in 1867.
RAILROAD communication has been
rc-opcncd between Columbia and
Charleston, $. C.. On the 18th, a
train passed over the road for the
first time since the advent of Sher.
mans army,
The Chicago papers report whole
sale dcsecration of cemetery in that
city. Within the last fow months
twenty bodies have been stolen from
the graves.
TuE bill for universal suffrage in the
i,is'r'o' or o-i"mhia passcl the
House of Representatives, by a vo e
ef li6 to 81. This was a larger
majority than even tho friends of the
measure expected. p ,.a.9i aO.Ni
conscience MoNEy.-The sum Of
seven dollars has just been returned
t. the Department through the con.
tessional as matter of conscience
such cases, which occur occasionally
are only for small sums. lau
AN attempt was made in Washing,
ton Tuesday night to burn the negro
churches in the city, and also some
negro residences. Fortunately the
attempt was discovered In time, in
each instance. rui a..snti
TnE Fouian excitement in Canada
is increasing in intensity, General
Sweeney promises hostages for the
Fenians convicted in ireland, and a
Toronto paper promises Sweeney q
halter if he comes within Cansdiau
Jurisdiction. e,t.. -.
BURNING MuTILATgD NoTEs.-
Since August last the Treasury De-
Partmcnt has, destroyed by burning
over $4,000, 900 ofmutilated and can
celled notes Of all kinds, aud slO,-
100000 additional will soon be added
to the flames. a. t..
TnE Toledo Blade, a. Of Monday,
learns that strike. occurred among
the engineers employed by the Mich.
Iigan Southern Railroad Company
Saturday afternoon. But one train
left for the west, the mail, and nc
train arrived over the Air Line, The
express train was announced 20 leave
on Wednesday evening as usual,
THE gas monopo!ists at Chicago
are about coming 20 grief, as . new
gas made frNm crude petroleum, is
being introduced there. The Chica.
go Post says that the light of tho pc.
troleam gas is fully four times greater
than the ligh. Of the coal gas, and
that il can be made at q very much