The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1868-12-03
GENERAL NEWS.

The Foniau Congress unanimous.
ly elected Con. John O'Neil, Prcsi-
dent Of tho Fenian Brotherhood.
Ex-Governor Pickous, Of S,uth /
Carolina, is reported to be lyir.s dan. !
gerously i'll, of irRammatica of the
lungs, at his home in EJ scdeld.
The President p'tdoucd Perrin
Morris, in the Cor.mbus, Ohio, Peni.
,tentia'y for robtmg a mail in 1867. |
Probably tho President don't think |
u much Of crime.
The Eu.Klux of Arkansas, shot
aud mortally wounded Capt. Il. W
Thomson, Acting District Attor.
ney Of that State, on tho 18th ult..
because Of his having been known as
a Grant man and having voted for
him The Ku-Klux are brave at as.
sassinations.
Tho Austrian Government has ct.
ted out squadron to sail around
the world. Tho object of this enter.
prise is to introduce the products Of
that country into foreign markets.
IL will visit China and japan, then
go to California and cruise along tho !
South American coast.
Col. Robert Withcrs, who served
through the war In the Confederate
army, was shot three times, Saturday, |
and killed, at lIondcrsonyillc, on the |
Louisville q Nashville railroad. by
man named Sam Doxio. The dispute
arose about the loading Of freight
car.
A grand reunion Of I he Armies
Of the Cumberland, Ten nossec, Ohio
aud Georgia takes place in Chicago
on tho 18th aud 10th of Deccmber.-
Gems. Grant, sherman, Sheridan
Thomas, Slocum, Howard, SO. will
be present, besides thousands of pri- !
Vato soldiers.
Davis Of New York, and Cusad oil
Iowa rnn foot.race, on the Fash.
ion Course, Long Island, tho 2Ith !
ult for purse of $1,000, and tho
championship of America. The dis
tanoe was ono hundred and twenty
five yards, and Casad won. running it
in eleven aud ono-hnlf seconds.
Governor Hayes appointed DR.
VIM. Cleudonin of q incinnati, ID. Nc-
MILAN of Xenia, Il. Messenger of
Marion, JAS, Stock dale of Lancaster,
and Thomas ID. Rikon of Upper
Sandusky, Committee Of this State
to attend tho Convention at Spring.
field ILL.,, Doc. LIST, to investigate the
cattle disease.
The rebel jefferson Davis has
gone to lccturing. A subject like |
the following might bo suggested to |
him for thome: The Kindness with
which Northern prisoners were treat
ed at Andersonvlle and other pris-
ons during the existtnce of my Con-
fedoracS.' On that he might deiy-
er n lecture Of inordinato length.
Friday last, whtc girl named
Kennedy, living in Do Soto county,
Missouri, while crossing tho woods
to a ncighbors, was seized on by
negro aud horribly violated. Tho
next morning no was found by ciu.
zons, taken before tho child, aud
identified by her, Othor circumstau.
tial evidence clearly showed his guilt.
lilo was taken to tho scene ofviolonce
and hanged,
Denver, Colorado, is reported over.
run with desporadoes. Two officers
got on track aud attempted to arrest
two highwOymen on tho 25th. In
tho struggle for the capture, ono Of
them escaped and the other was shot.
On tho 23d, mob of twenty men
men took horse thief, named l.. A.
Musgraye, from tho Jail aud hung
him.
Nov. 25th, the Fcnian Con grcss in
Philadelphia, passed a resolution
that it was the sonso Of the Congress
that VIC hereby tondor cordial in.
yitation to all independent Irish rev.
olutionary bretherhoods, and Savage
Circles Of Feuian Brotherhood, to
send delegates to this Convention
WO furthermore invite all native
lrishmcn to participate in our delib-
erations.
On the 97th ult., Secretary Sew.
ard tolegraphed to Minister johnson
that this Government would not 40
cept tho proposed method of settling
the Alabama claims. Johnson's pro.
posed treaty would bind us to tho
payment of the losses of British sub.
jects that lived at the South during
tho war, and indirectly assisted in
tho rebellion, as we'll as the English.
men who actually took part,
The people of Indiana have been
for long time very much agitatod
with regard to tho validity of au act
of the Legislature known as the