The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-10-26
GENERAL. NEWS.

n convention Ol brewers Is DelD2
held in st. Louis, at which tue is II
large attendance.
From five to eight persons are dy-
ing per day in New Orleans from
yellow fever, which is on the III
crease.
The Grand Jury at Toronto have
found true bills against Colonel
Lynch and Messrs. Mcmahon and
Lumsdcn Of the Fcnians.
An express train on the Erie Rail
road was Friday precipitated down
an embaukment of forty feet near
Union Pa, and ten OF the passen
gers killed and others seriously in
jured.
Returns received from the Land
Office at Eau Claire, Wis show that
3S,0lS acres OF public land were dis.
posed of on september II, 950 OF
which were entered for actual settle
ment.
The oil well in Terre Haute, Ind ,
disco, cred while boring for water, is
now flowing $50 barrels per day
The town is wonderfully excited
over il.
The Colt Patent Firearms Manu-.
factuung Company, of Hartford,
have received an order from the
Russian Govcrnn ent for 1000 OF
the Leidley hrecch loading gun
which is said to be q more effective
arm than the prGssian needle-gun
a very successful Fair is being
held at Madison, Ind. Three hun
dred horses have been entered. The
aggregate value of one hundred o
them is said 20 he $4,000.
Out of 81 counties in Iowa, only
three gave Democratic mnjorilies.
a knitting firm in New York Stat,
has failed, It's liabilities amounting
to nearly one milliol dollars.
There are nineteen indictments 20
murder on the docket OF the .AleXan
dria, Louisiana, courts, hut such
r state Of anarchy exists, that the mur
Gerers cannot be brought to trial.
The establishment Of the Indian
apolis Herald, the Central Democrat
ic organ in Indiana, has gone int,
. the hands of assigners for the bene
fit OF creditors. 1t is offered 70
sale.
The Soldiers and Sailors Leagu
at Washington are preparing to civ
the Southern LovaIists n grand re
ccption The demonstration it i
thought, will excel any one ever see
in that city.
[ The custom receipts at the Port
+, Of Boston, New York, Philadelphi
and Baltimore for the week endin
October Is, were over three milio
+ OF dollars, showing Cxtraordinar
importations.
; Capt. Fisk writes from Montan
(. that the miners and newly arrive
II immigrants in that Territory NJ
!. leaving in large numbers, a porto
J Of his own train having taken I'll
L back track for home.
Dispatches report n meeting (
>, Fenian chiefs in Rochester, at whiC
- 1t was resolved that should the Cal
adian authorities inaict punishmci
+, on the prisoners now in their hand
, retoliatory measures will be immed
. ately adopted.
. A house was burned down 0
II Tuesday last near Peoria, III by I'll
I bursting of coal oil lamp which I'll
U occupant, Mr. G.. GRAHAM, was in
II prudcutlv filling while it was bun
nlng. Three of his children wei
consumed in the flames, and a so
Z and his wife and himself were :,
= verely injle
4 The report Of a negro riot ;
= Nashville grew out Of the arrest {
a some negroes on charge Of vagrar
i cy, merely for the purpose OF pre-
curing hands for some Mississippi
o planters, who were so unpopula
: with the working people that no on
would voluntarily engage with then
, The planters paid the fees OF the OIL
, GERS and took the negroes to Missi:
sippi, and it was thought, reasonahl
enough, that riot would grow on
, OF it, but the negroes continue
, npacpnblp