The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-08

trail KENTUCKY.
Gen. Logan is going to build
residence in Chicago.
Pittsburgh was the FIRST city in the
United States to dry bricks by ar
ulcial means.
Nearly all the banks in North Car
olina have declared large dividends.
Bismark bonnets and needle-gun
skirts are among the latest whims oil
fashion.
The wheat crop in the Shenandoah
Valley looks most promising.
A society ia about being organized
in the city of New York to be called
the "Midnight Mission for the Res
cue of Erring Women"
When completed, the Pacific Rail
road will resemble gigantic letter
Y, with the expansion looking cast
ward.
A Photograph frame, made of u
40 pieces OF bay wood, by a New
York soldier with pen knife, is now
on exhibition at Harrisburg. Pa.
The Paris exhibition covers an
area of lI6, ,2SS square yards, while
that in Hyde park in 1851 only Gov
cred I 900.
Washington dispatches state that
Charles Sherman, brother of the Gen
eral, will be appointed Judge OF the
Northcrn District OF Ohio.
The richness of the Iron Mountain
ore of Missouri is to he exhibited in
satisfactory and striking manner
at the Paris exposition.
The rice lands in Carolina are
said to have been almost entirly
abandoned by the negroes. Most OF
the blacks have cmigratcd to Flori-'
da aud the trans Mississippi
The Mobile Times understands
that the House judiciary Committee
/, of the Alabama Legislature have a
greed to report favorably upon the
measure of transferring the capital
of the State from Montgomery to
Mobile.
A dispatch from Gen. Howard to
the Southern Relief Association in
New York, confirms the report OF the
extreme dcstitution in portions of the
South.
| Advices from Japan report rice n
OTIS among the people on account o
the high price, occasioncd by th'
disturbed condition of things in TIL;
country.
The Fenian leaders in New Iorl
advertise for sale 1000 principall.
musiets and Springfield rifles, al
ready for instant use.
a dispatch from Paris says tina
r Mr.. Bennett is to receive gold med
al from the yachtmcn OF Rochelle
He is also to have an audiance wit
| the Emperor.
, 1t is said that the House Commit
:. tee on whiskey frauds at Washingto
, intend to report in favor Of changin
the law SO as to tax dlstilleries o
o the capacity of their stills.
Judge Spalding, on Tuesday, pre-
sented a memorial in the House, iroi
citizens of Cleveland, asking that IN
; ,cwas,,,yoriaine.tl>e Secretary of til
legal tender notes per month, bc II
o pea.cd.
:. The Chicago Times publishes O
y an Endorsement of its advocacy {
negro suffrage, a letter from on
VIM. Dewitt, who subscribes to tn
a weekly cditino, and adds:
II IN. i i don care damn whctl
cr the negroes vote or not"
The Nashville correspondent {
!, the Cincinnati Gazette says that
+ fearful state of things prevails i
n Obion county, Tenn, where Senate
a Case was killed. Lewis, the murder
er, denes the authorities. Unio
o men in that and other counties ar
fleeing for their lives, and eX Con
n lcderates soldiers are going abou
with their gray uniforms on, sayini
tfey have never surrendered. Thi
correspondent says that nothing bu
o the passage of the Loyal Militia bill
e and other similar measures, will say
I the Union men of Tennessee fror
determination.
"Dang me, if / don't b'lieve tn
worlds a wheel barrow said joll,
inehriate as he rolled along the pave
: land I'm the wheel revolving on IN,
= haxis. Now I'm in the mud,' con
tinued he, as he fell headlong in th
gutter, "and now I'm Oh dry land,
as lie fetched up on the curbstone
His concluding remark was, as hi
boots followed his head down al
open cellar way,-''now the wheel il
r broke and the wehickle is out of re
, pair" But the poor world Joyce,
, on without its "whecl," and certain
individual woke up with SCARE,
/ countenance and a slight headache
a Rev. Benoni Allen, one of the pi
! onecr Baptist preachers of Ohio
! died near GAINESVILLE few day
n since, IN his seventy-third year. ii
+ was well known by all the churche
Il Of that denomination in this State
/ having travelled and labored for for
ty years.
On the Sth inst. q company com
posed of citizens of Newcastle, struc
oil on the Slippery Rock, in Lawrenc
s: county; which it is supposed Wi
- yield at least fifty barrels per day
They have taken out the tubin
d and will soon have the well in opei
atinn Tho walI 10 lo,a,ol . r.,