The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-12-20

The tennessee Lower House mas
passed the bill relieving negroes from
disabilities imposed by the present
laws, and also bill providing for
Commissioners to audit the claims of
loyal citizens against the General
Government for losses sustained du-
ring the war.
A New Haven paper made the IA
nous blunder of giving the subject
of debate, Ought future punish
ment to be abolished 2 instead of
capital punishment
Cranberry wine taken internally
and applied externally, is announced
1--WE know not by whom as cure
for scrofula. For several years past
cranberry poultices have been declar-
ed in the newspapers to be certain
cure for cancer.
Theodore Tilton had just entered
a hotel in a western town, and was
going up stairs very travel stained
to change his toilet preparatory to
lecturing, when he encountered on
the second floor an over-dressed and
vulgar woman. "Are you the por-
ter ?" questioned the woman, laying
her hand on Theodore's arm. "No,
madam was the quiet response,
'are you the chambermaid p
There is now q continuous railway
communication between Chicago and
st. Paul, Mimi, a distance of S92
miles.
Grass Valley, in Californis, is pro.
nounced by Commissioner Brown,
the most productive gold quartz min
ing district in the world. The annu-
al yield of an area drawn by a radius
of four miles is s3,500,000.
Josh Billings says: elf you trade
with q Yankee, steal his jack-knife
fust; for if he gifts to whiting, you
are gone in spite of thunder"
Tne ravages ofa man. eating tigers
are so serious in the central districts
of India that elephants have been
placed at the disposal of the district
officers to assist in destroying them,
Charleston. South Carolina, is NOV
ing in the matter of removing the
distractions in her harbor. Proba,
bly, no city in the world. has its hsr.
Dor so obstructed with the debris of
war.
The Georgia Reconstruction Con-
lvention, Tuesday, effected an organ.
ization by the election of j. r. Par.
rott President, and the other neces-
sary officers.
The clock and watch trade OF
France, is officially represented as
amounting to 35,000,000 francs an
nually.
1--WE are for Negro Suffrage-the
,cay they suffered in NeW Orleans" "
was the inscription on a banner borne
in a late Conservative or Democratic
procession in Baltimore.
A Maine railroad carries Indians
at balf price and clergymen free.
The S5OO0,OO new synagogue in
New York is nearly finished.
The New York canals, all told, are
nine hundred miles long.
We have imported ten million
pounds more Japan tea this year
than last.
There are five vessels on their
way from Bremen with emigrants for
Texas.
What is the difference between q
spendthrift and feather bed? One
Is hard up, the and the other is soft
down.
.ri3 A loving offer to marry
..- Is always lawful trade;
For his is a legal tender,
d-1 And she is tender made (maid.)
We are advised to watch our
tongues, but, unfortunately, they are
so located that we can't see them.
man may grow to weigh ton,
Who feasts his mind with pungent fun
But he who scorns It's simple sway,
Oft yields to crime an easy prey.
All vice infatuates and corrupts the
judgment.
Why is person asking a question
the strangest of individuals ? Be-
cause he is the querist.
A very little wit is valued in a wo-
man, observes a cynical bachelor, as
We are pleased with few words spo-
ken plain by q parrot.
"Ma," said an inquisitive little girl
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