The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-10-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A letter from Alexandria, Egypt,
has been lying dangerously i'll at Con-
stantinople.
The fishing business at Sandusky is
said to be going OH swimmingly. The
expectations are immense.
The Manchester adams county,
Gazette reports new corn selling at SO
cents per bushel in that market.
There we're 263 arrests in Cleye
land during September, G2 of the per
sons arrested being charged with pen
offences.
A New York paper says the mon
keys IN the Central Park have caught
the Greclan bend from their young
lady visitors.
The Tuscarawas Chronicle says that
a farmer i'm Carroll county raised this
year five hundred bushels of corn on
five acres of ground.
Newark reports 2,2S9 children be-
tween FIVE and twenty-one years, sS OF
them being colored. The increase in
the whole number over 1867 was I24.
Burglars stole over $1,000 most
Iy in government bonds, from the
house of C. T. Sargent, in Falmouth,
Maine, on Thursday night.
The Postmaster General has award
ed the contract for supplying pos
tage stamps tor the next four years
to the National Bank Note Company,
of New York.
Mr.. Benjamin Nj. Davenport, OF
Kansas City, and Miss Ellen Camp.
bell, Of Hopkinsville, Kentucky,
were married in Gothic Chapel, Nam
moth Cave, on the 29th ult.
Advices from England represent
that Minister Johnson is negotiating
for the settlement of the Alabams
claims, with prospects Of reaching i
conclusion by the 1st of December.
A Catholic Church just dedicated
in Cleveland called the Church of st
Malachi. is 1876 feet by 64, and nearly
Al feet high to the caves. The tower
is to be 224 feet high.
Two men narrowly escaped being
killed at the Railroad Rolling Mills in
Cincinnati, on Wednesday, by the ex
plosion of a shell from a Southern
battle field which they were trying tC
open.
Information from Fort Lsrami,
says several hundred Sioux, under
under Man-Afraid- -of-his horses anG
other chiefs, now there, are ready t.
go on their reservations as soon a.
transportation is furnished.
During the month of August 7S,
l02 boxes of chewing and 6,42t
boxes of smoking tobacco were ship
ped in bond from Richmond, from
which the United States Government
received the revenue tax of $3.50, ,954
A devil fish of precisely the same
kind ns that described by Victor
Hugo. Mas caught off Farralto Island
near San FRANCISCO, California. II
measured eleven feet across, and its
weight WAS enormous.
The cornerstone for the new Hi
nois State-house arrived at Spring
field, on Monday morning, from the
auarries of the Hanover Stone Com
pany, near Hamilton. Iti nine feel
long, by four feet wide, and three
feet thick, weighing fourteen tuns.
The Assessors returns to the Com
mon Council of Chicago place the
assessed valution Of real aud personal
property in Chicago at s22s, ,444, ,S19,
being an increase over last year oi
$50, 1876, ,235. The total amount ol
this years levy is $4,000.
The Republic of Colombia, former
ly New Granada. has paid into the
State Treasury about 1888 400, leav-
ing a balance of So, 900 still DUE
This money is indemnity to citizens
of this county for spoliations, &c, in
the Panama riots, some years ago.
Richmond papers say that aparty Of
Northerners. chiefly Pennsyiyanians,
propose to purchase thirty or forty
thousand acres of land shout West
Point, on the York River, with q
view to build up city there, the To-
cality being considered very favora-
BILE.
A fishing party from "Gibralter," /"
Jay Cookies island, including Mr..
Cooke, three other gentlemen, and
three ladies, few days ago, near a
reef on one of the middle islands
caught i59 black bass, the smallest
two pouads and the largest
Eve and three quarters.
John A. Smith, ex-Treasurer of L.o-
gan county, charged with abstraciing
4 large amount of the county funds
while Treasurer, was arrested in Can
ida on Monday last, and delivered to
the Sheriff Of Logan county under the
extradition treaty, to l,s returned for
rial.
For tue present all mails for the
Pacific States and Territories, British
China, Japan, and the
Sandwich Islands, will be sent by the
Overland Mail, by way of Chicago
md Omaha. This arrangement in
:ludes all matter going to California,