The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-12-31

for the purpose of preventing specu.
latOrs from preying upon the colony.
Parties IN this city are connected will
this movement and several persons
have signified desire to join the col
Ony. a thousand families all going
west in body and settling on adj
joining farms would be a grand sight,
indeed, and the advantages TO be de-
rived from such mode of settling a
new country must he apparent to ev-
cry One.-TO5eotO COMMERCIAL
Mrs Grant gave one hundred dol
lars and large quantity of clothing
asa Christmas offering, To a society
for the relief of the poor Of Washing
ton.
The L. 5. Consul General at Havana
says the Cuban insurrection has been
losing ground steadily for the last two
or three months.
Fifty-five thousand hogs have been
killed i'll indianapolis during the pres
ent season, which is now about clos
ing
One of the most severe earthquakes
ever known in California, occurred
Monday. 1t was so severe at one
place as to throw Il railroad train of
the track.
The public debt statement will be
published next Monday. Owing TO
light receipts from customs and the
revenue the debt has only been re-
duced S3, ,00O, 600 this month.
SenOr Gorilla, the Spanish Minister
of Justice, made speech on Monday
in which he said if the Government
can not find Il king they will throw
themselves into the arms of repub-
lie.
The loss in the recent defalcation on
the Merchants Exchange Bank, of
New York, will probably not exceed
81 ,OO0,0OO, and certainly not one
/ third of the surplus of the bank al the
last quarterly statement.
The Upton young ladies, declaring
they mean business, assert and re-
solve that they will positively have
nothing To do with any young man
who uses tobacco ia any form. Now
for an increase in the ranks Of ancient
maidens.
y country merchant in New Jersey
began years ago selling molasses at
two and siXpense a gallon and never
deyiated from that price. This was
an advertisement that made him
known over vast region.
A meetor fell on Friday night near
Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and the stone
was discovered by traveller near
whom it struck. II made a hole in
the marshy ground as large as bar
rel, and when taken out was still hot,
and emitted sulphurous Odor. 1t
had the appearance of 4 cylinder of
lava.
The best game Ofbase ball we ever
read of, transpired in Bridgeport, Con-
necticut, few nights since. a party
of rOughs attempted to clean out a
beer saloon, but the owner seized a
ball club and put them out, scoring
three strikes and three runs. The
rOughs went out on fly, and We're
caught by the police.
a cOl0red convict in the Ohio Peni-
tentiary from Cincinnati, named
Charles Williams, now serving a
third term in the Penitentiary, has
been making himself troublesome to
the officers, and was put into the dun
geOn as a punishment. There he was
kept until Sunday morning, when,
upon going TO the place, he was found
dead, having hung himself with his
suspenders to bar in the wall.
The result of the Texas election is
still doubtful, according to Il dispatch
from Galveston. The Constitution
has been adopted. The result i'm the
| First Congressional District is uncer-
tain; in the Second J. c. COnnor is
elected; in the Third, w. S. Clark;
in the Fourth, Edwin Degener. The
Legislature, as far as heard from,
stands: Senate-Conservatives, Is;
Republicans, If, with one to hear
from. In the House there are 45 Con-
servatives, 3G Republicans, and 8 in
doubt.
AT Mt. Pleasant, near Cincinnati,
/ Monday, Il blacksmith named Dun
can Mcdonald, in saloon, playfully
snapped a pistol at Thomas COrcoran,
and shot him dead. He had carried a
revolver several days without any CYL
inder and snapped it AT people. He
says that he forgot that the cylinder
was replaced, being very drunk ut the
time. His character has been good as
IA peaceahle citizen. He was arrested
and gave bail to appear at the Crimi-
nal Court.
Nincennes is enjoying the felicity of
gas row. The Gazette says the price
is S3 80, and il should not be more
than 81 50. Gas Companies seem to
be the same everywhere for the Ga
zette adds: According to the terms
of the original contract, the price of
gas was to be reduced from time to
time, corresponding with the decline
of gas in other cities of the same pop
ulatiOn as Vincennes; but no reduc-
ton has been made. On the contra
ry, the price has been raised fifty per
cent, 10 meet the demands of the
Gas Company"
The Bureau Of Statistics has spublish-
cd I. report showing that during the
nine months ending in September,
the total imports into the United
States amount to S:iGl, J6:!, ,93I in gold, |
being an increase of siXty-SiX millions /
over the same period in 1865. or this |
S250, ,0OO, 600 worth were transported in /.
foreign vessels. The exports amount (
Ia S:i2l SO, 79S, being eight and one
half millions less than in 1865. 81, lGI 4
1879 worth of foreign goods were eXpOr- !
ted, being five and one-haif millions I
more than in 1865. Two-thirds ID the .
total exports We're carried in foreign /
vessels.
New York has among its leagues an |
american Annexation League" !
which seems Ia have been organized .
for the purpose Of anneXin@ some .
country To the United States, the NOV
eTs in the project being Indifferent as I
la whether il should be Mexico, Can 4
ada or the West India Islands. The .
Ninnepeg insuFrectiOn affords them /
magnificent opening, and they are
now organizing an eXpeditiOnary 4
force 10 assist the half breeds in cstab-
fishing the independence of that cOun-
try from England and the Dominion
and annexing il To the American
Union.
AdviceS from Havana mention the
dispersion of Nillamil's band of insur-
gents i'm the CineO Villas District, the
defeat of the rebels i'm the Amador
Mountains by the civil guard, and
other uninportant skirmishes.
Many rebels were said to be present
ing themselves for pardon. Another
report was to the effect that Corama-
dies and Villiamil were moving to-
ward Camrguey, but the SpaniarCls
it. Another detachment
of /, 800 troops had arrived from Spain,
and been sent To the front Several
plantations in the vicinity of CincO
villas had been burned. The Havana
police detained the steamer Eagle,
when about to sail, for the purpose of /
seizing a passenger named Donaldson,
charged with speaking against the
Spanish Government, but Captain
General De Rodas ordered his relea 81
and lac ,.-as q alloNVad fo sail