The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-01-08

farmer has lost eighteen.
Planters in Yazoo county, Missi-
sippi, during the present season have
recsived over $500, 900 in gold.
The young ladies of Staunton,
Virginia, are to havo rifle match on
the sth. Cupid has got new weap-
on. if
The cane in st. Mary's parish, La /,
suffered but little by frost. All Of
the planters have finished sugar max
ing.
The warrant for the execution OF
Wooley at Freehold, N. j on the
7th, has been signed by the Cover
nor.
Hon. John C. Weed, member Of the
Connecticut Legislature from Green
wich, r,ysteriously disappeared Sat
urday night last. .sa
Many of the insurance companies
operating in Lynchburg, Virginia,
have Withdrawn their agencies, in
consequence Of the many fires.
A plantation containing six hundred
and forty five acres, twenty one miles
from Charleston, S. c., was sold the
other day at public sale for $500.
James A. Pittock, publisher of the
Leader. gave his tenth annual dinner
to the newsboys and bootblacks of
Pittsburg, at Lafayette Hall, New
Years day.
Henry P. Baldwin. Of Detroit, Gov
ernor elect of Michigan, took the
oath of Office at Lansing, Friday
The Legislature convenes there next
Wednesday.
The annual report of the Congress,
siOnal Printer shows that the actual
disbursements Of his Office during the
year ending September 80 were tl,-
100000.
The American bark Delaware was
wrecked of Fish Guards Lighthouse,
near Victoria, January lst. She was
bound from Sitka to Port Townsend,
for lumber.
Col. Wyneoop, Indian Agent, hav
ing changed ms resignation SO as to
make it unconditional, the same las
been accepted by the Commissioners
of Indian Affairs.
The Wisconsin Senatorial contest
between Carpenter and Washburn is
waxing warm. The formers chances
are the better. The Legislature
meets on the 18th inst.
Commodore W. s. Saltzer, United
States Navy, died in Elizabeth, New
Jersey, after q lingering illness Of
rheumatism of the heart, Sunday
morning. He was seventy-four ears
of age.
The Washington city letter car
rer's report for the last quarter of
lsss .ssSSassnd ssSEs d4sst tsH we're Collected
and three hundred and sixty. eight
thousand delivered.
The Helena Post says that in the
famous Union mine there are 1000
tuns of excellent ore ready to be
crushed, and 10000 tuns of equally
good quartz in sight, and that the
ledge contains quartz worth s5,OOO.-
900.
A dispatch to New Orleans, from
Jefferson, Texas, reports that Capt.
VIM. Penny, an old and prominent
citizen of that place, was shot and
killed Monday night. The deed is
to have been done by sol.
liers, through mistake.
Coal, in abundance, and of an ex
,ellent quality, has been discovered
lalf mile from Argenta. on the line
If the Central Pacific Railway, four
miles from Sacramento, fur '
fishing the Company a much needed
upply of fuel at the point desired. ,
Another battle with the Indians is
eported near Wachita Mountain In e
7hich the latter were badly worsted. s
chief of the Kiowas, and t
little Raven, chief of the Araphoes, s
'ere taken prisoners. The Indians S
ngaged were the Kiowas, ,Cheyennes | D
nd Araphoes. u
The Office of the Evening Press, II
r. L., was burned on the
forming Of the 3lst ult. The fire
ut off egress from the Office by the B
.aircase and twenty-five printers at "
ork in the fourth story escaped by d
imbing down chain used for hoist O.
Ig. Total loss S65, 900. is
Gen. Rousseau has ordered Brevet e,
[ajOr General r. b. Ayers, Lieuten 10
1t Colonel Twenty-eighth Infantry,
ting Assistant Inspector General, b,
apartment Of Louisiana, to proceed, M
a Memphis Tenn, and White river to
Little Rock, Ark, and 10 such th
,ints in the State of Arkansas as m
c reported in disturbed condition, qr
ID to examine into and make report pr
ncerning the same. lor