The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-01-25

General Grants carriage ran over
little boy at Auburn, during the re-
cent swinging around, and hurt the
lad so badly as to require amputa-
ton of leg. The boy is getting
better, and tile General has promised
to be his friend through life.
when General Gregory went to
Texas he visited lawer at his office,
and asked HIM for copy of the laws
of Texas. The lawyer opened a
drawer, took out large and hand
some bowie.knife, and gave it to the
General.
The Turkish ambassador was at a
public dinner, in company with some
of the magnates of the land. The
President gave us q toast, in com
pliment to his Excellency, The
Sublime Porte and the Turkish Am
bassador." The waiter echoed it dow n
the table, "A supply of port for the
Turkish Ambassador"
A lad who had lately gone to ser
vice, having had salad served up to
dinner every day for week, ran
away aud when asked why he left
his place, he replied :--"They made
me yeat grass i til summer, and j
wur afraid they'd make me yeat hay
l. tn winter; and Icould no stand
that, so l wui off,"
| Jones said to Hawkins, q crusty
old bachelor, "What pity that ole
Golden has gone blind. Loss o
sight is terrible thing, and the poor
fellows eyes are quite sealed up
Let him marry. them" exclaimed
the waspish old celibate; ''let hin
marry, and if that does not open his
eyes he is indeed in hopeless con.
dition."
The citizens of Deerfeld, Portage
county, have completed fine monu
nent to the memory of the soldiers
of that township who fell while doing
gallant service for the Republic il
the army of the Union. 1t is com
posed of nine different pieces OF mar
ole and cut stone, is twenty nine
feet above the level of the ground
and cost 81 800. .,. otsa.rgu... .
A young man just from Virginia
says. it is the poorest and healthies
place under the sun. Twenty. fiv,
dollars in cash is looked upon ther,
as fortune. Business is nothing
except what the lawyers are doing
and they are selling out everybody
Fees are not easily cashed, bu
they cody take all the money eli
snt has, and then take his note TO
all he is going to make.
We learn, says an exchange, from
a gentlemen who arrived yesterda,
from Red River, that on the secont
of the month shower of tine sal
occurred on Red River, about sixt,
miles from the mouth. There ha,
been q little snow the day before
: and on the next day, it being observet
that the supposed snow had not mel
ted, it was examined andfound to b
veritable salt. Our informant gath
cred q bushel of it, and was found t.
be equal to the best Turks Island.
Russell, the singer, was once sing
ing IN provincial town, ''The Gam
bler's Wife, and having uttered th
words-"Hush he comes not yet !
the clock strikes one" he struck til
key to initiate the sudden kpell of th
: departed hour, when respectfully
dressed woman calculated, to the as
tonishment Of everybody: "Wouldn'
B. 1 have fetched him home, don't yo
think p
The reporters of the Congression
al Globe are anticipating with fea
and trembling the hour when tn
Hon. Mr.. Morrissey will "shie hi
: castor into the house. One of then
who had been lying upon his sofa il
the brown study the other evening
sprang up suddenly, tearing his hai
, and exclaimed, d,"Good Heavens, jus
] think of it! If | should report any
thing displeasing to Mr.. .Morrissey,
suppose he'd knock me out of tim
. for SIX weeks. .re-7 off ,ni. ...
A dreadful calamity occurred Tues
! day IN Regent Park, London.
beautiful lake Of water is near tn
center OF the Park, and this bein,
frozen over, the surface was covere,
with great crowd of skaters
} Suddenly the ice gave way, ant
more than two hundred persons wer
precipitated1 into the water. TIL,
| Atlantic Cable barely announces th
fact, but It requires not very vivi,
Iimas sination TO picture the awfu
scene that must have ensued. Th,
greater portion seem to have beer
rescued yet IL is with thrill of hor