The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-06-18
General News.

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The General Convention Of the
Swedenborgian Church began in
New York City Tuesday.
The New York Common Council
has adopted a resolution appropria-
ting $4,000 for the celebration Of
the Fourth Of July.
Gen. Fremont was a passenger
on the Vile de Paris, for Europe,
as we're a large number Of mem
bers Of the French opera troupes.
The aggregate attendance of stu
dents at the oWesleyan Univer-
sity, during the past year, was
three hundred and ninety-three.
The fire in the Maitland Distil-
Iery, on Saturday, at BrOcksville,
Canada, destroyed $4,000 gallons
high wines, besides other valuable
property. Loss, $4,000.
At Rochester, \. Y, Tuesday,
the chief engineer and several FIRE
men we're injured by an explosion
of benzine, at q slight fire in the
oil store of Osgood & Farley.
4 man was caught, the other
day, On shaft in a Minneapolis,
Mimi, saw mill, whirled at the rate
ofsix hundred revolutions per min
ute, and finally torn to pieces.
The bids opened at the Navy De-
partment on Monday for the sale of
the surplus monitors did not come
up to the appraised value of any of
them, and OF course were not ao-
cepted.
At a meeting Tuesday, of the
Toronto Corn Exchange Associa~
tion, petition was adopted to Par
lament, advising the imposition of
duties on American breadstufs and
provisions.
The managers of the New York
Hospital have decided to locate the
new Insane Asylum at White Plains,
Westohester county. 1t will cost
81, 100000, and accommodate five
hundred inmates.
Judge Blatchford, in a decision,
Saturday, sustained the action of
President Grant in reYoking the
pardons of Jacob and Noses Dupuy.
who will be obliged to serve out
their terms in the penitentiary.
The election for city officers at
Waterbury, Conn, took place Mon
day. Hon. A. B. Merriman, Re-
publican, was elected Mayor by
319 majority. The Republicans
also elect a majority of city officers.
Detectives McCune and Connen
were bound over, at Memphis, Tues
day, in the sum Of five hundred dol
lars, for trial, for torturing prison-
ers by hanging them up by their
thumbs, in order to make them con-
fess.
A mail-carrier from Salt Marsh,
Kansas, reports one Swede and a
boy killed by a small party of
Sioux, on 9th inst. The settlers
generally are well armed, but more
trouble is apprehended.
Mrs. S. Banman was arrested in
st. Louis, Tuesday, charged with
causing the death of a negro ser
want girl, Is years old, by beating
her with an oaken club. Fifty-two
cuts, bruises and scratches were
found on her corpse.
Twenty-eight clerks will be re-
moved from the Pension Bureau
July 1st. Twelve female copyists
viii also be dismissed, as will thir-
teen watchmen in the Interior De-
partment and twenty-fonr clerks
in the Land Office.
A duel was fought on Sunday
morning, at Ldndy's Lane. Canada
hot~een the editor of a Spanish pa
per and a Cuban. The latter was
shot through both legs; the wounds
are serious. An article styling the
Cubans towards was the cause.
Should the present military force
on the frontirr be inadequate to
promptly quell existing difficulties
with the Indians, authority will be
conferred on General Schofeld to
raise volunteers for this purpose,
and secure peace and tranquility to
the border.
Thomas Murphy, third mate of
the ship James Foster, has been
convicted of beating one of the
crew, who subsequently died
James Glynn, the carpenter, was
again tried and convicted on two
more counts in the Indictment
against him.
Prof's. Simon D. Newcomb, VIII
liam Hardness and John r. East
man, are ordered to proceed to
Des Woines, Iowa, or within one
hundred miles of that city, for the
purpose Of making observations of
the eclipse of the sun on the 7th of
August.
Two companies of the 10th Uni
ted States Infantry, from st. Paul,
left st. Louis for Texas, Tuesday,
on the steamer Bismarck, where
they Will be consolidated with the
26th Infantry. The other compa-
nies of the 10th Regiment will
speedily follow.
A fortnight ago, while a Mrs.
Rogers, of Phelps county, Missou-
ri, was in the garden with an in
fant, fourteen months old, seated
near her, an eagle swooped down
and attempted to carry off the child
but was prevented by a dog which
came to its assistance and fought
valiantly in its defense.
The Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad and the G. & r. I. Rail-
way, Wednesday, commenced the
sale of throuph tickets from Cbiea-