The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-03-07
The News.


Ohio PenitentiAry.
The Senate has confirmed the nom.
iuations Of John A. Dix. Minister at
Paris, and Hugh Ewing to be Minis
Ter resident at the Hague. s
The West Virginia Legislature ad.
journed at late hour on Thursday
evening, having completed its Con-
stitutiOnal term Of 45 days.
The great financial "irregularity"
In Boston is oecasioniug q general
distrust Of brokers and banking op.
erations.
The Tennessee House Of Repre-
sensativeS has refused 10 repeal tho
section Of the Franchise law, which
prohibits refugees from holding Office
or sitting on jouries,
Governor Swami. ofMOrylund, has
declined the U. S. senatorship, to
which no was recently elected, after
much delay aud trouble, by tho Leg
hlaiure.
The house oaTpentors Of New York,
Harlem, North New York, Brooklyn
aud Morrisans, have resolved to do.
mand, after the iirst Monday in April,
four dollars per day.
The Kentucky Radicals ara about
TO establish daily paper at Louis.
villo. Abundant capital is subscrib.
ed. A string race for success in the
next election is to be made.
The people of Georgia arc much
exercised over the Sherman recon-
asruction bill. A meeting held at
Augusta, on the 4th inst, divided,
majority being against the acceptance
Gifts terms.
The she'll boat to be used by Brown
In his race with Hauill, on the Mon.
Ungahela, in May next, has boeu fin.
ished at 7 Jborts' boat yard, in Har.
lem, N. Y. IL is thirty.two feet ip
length, thirteen aud n half inches
beam, aud weighs thirty.fye pounds.
wilburn Waters, famous hunter
. and hermit Of Southwestern Virginia,
was lately murdered for the sake Of
5000 bounty for VOLTS scaIps which
he had just received, Waters was a
half breed Catawba Indian, a man of
eccentric habits, but excellent char
aeter, aud most porsevering enemy
of the wild beasts of the mountain re
gion which he Inhabited
The Springfield Republic learns that
the Commissioners of Clarke County
have decided to submit TO the people,
at the Spring election. the question
of leavying tax Of halfa mill on the
dollar for the erection Of soldiers $
monument. The Republic thinks tho
question ought to be answered all one
way in. patriotic community like
that ofClarke County, aud we hope it
will be.
BY the cable we have intelligence
Of tho reported arrest of O'Connor,
the terrible Fenian; of strikes among
the French labtring classes, and Of
Garibaldi's inclination to 20 to the
cid Of the Cretaus We have also
news Of the changes in the English
Cabinet; Of the submission by Bis.
marck Of u constitution for the new
German Confederation, aud Of the in
stitutiOn OF legal proceedings against
an editor by the Emperor Of the
French.
A little daughter of Alfred Wood
ruff, Of Greenfield, Mich, was bitten
some lime since by rabid dog. A
few days ago she was attacked by hy-
drophobia, suffering terrible agonies,
which continued till after consuIta-
ton by her physicians, who decided
that, as the sufferer could not posi-.
bly, survive, considerations ofhuman.
ity demanded that her sufferings DO
ended by some means, in accordance
with which, during Sc, ,ore parox.
ysm, the child was smotherod to
death.
In Albany, last Thursday. a poor
man uamed John Simpson committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the heart. He had been without
work for a month ,or more, with a
wife aud four childreu.to support, aud
the thoughts Of his little ones crying.
for bread, and he unable to give it to
them, turned his brain. Ho took his
gun, telling his wife ho was going to
clean 1t, aud repairing to his bed room,
perPeIratsd ,he awful desd, discharg.
ing tho piece by placing his toe or
The trigger. ~
a special telegram to the New
York Herald, from Montreal, says
that the Provincial territory will be
declared kingdom at the 6rst meet.
ing Of tho United Representatives,
and that Prince Arthur, third son of
Queen VictcFis, will assume charge
gift he is seventeen years Of age,
and Que Of his numerous names is