The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-04-29
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libel, laying damages at 100000.
Secretary Boutwell, has issued at
order directing that there shall DO NJ
exchange Of securities to insure th'
public deposits in National banks.
Prince Napoleon began TO write
history Of his uncle seven years ago
but the Emperor heard Of II, and dis
suaded him from completing 1t.
General Candy issued an order, III,
22d inst, requiring all persons hold
ing Office ia Virginia, who were elect
ed to tho same, and who have not ta-
ken the test oath, to take 1t now
This will vacatc number OF Offices,
A Now.orleans editor has an cx-
nlted idea of tho Shakospoorcau dra
ma. The Picaygne Of that city says
the man who plays the porter in
"Macbeth," must be an actor in the
highest sense Of the word.
A railway safety stove, just patcD-
ted, has reservoir Of water so situa.
tod above it as not TO become heated
In case of an accident, the shock will
throw open couple of valves, aud
the Gre DO exlinguishod.
II is unlawful for the soldiers sta.
toned as Sitka to purchase liquor
They accordingly send the little
Russian children to the stores to pur-
chas il for thom. From this practice,
il is said, the children are becoming
habitual drunkards.
Mrs. Harriet Beocher Stowe gives
up her plantation in Florida, for the
reason that her title, acquired at a
military tax sale, does not hold good
aud that the original owner regain'
possession, paying Mrs. Stowe the
amount she expended for the estate.
Tho Republican Conventions of
Washington Territory met at Van
couver, tho 2lst inst, and adopted
tho platform Of the last National Con.
vontion at Chicago. l.. Garfield
was unanimously nominated for u
delegate to Congress.
A Labor Convention was held in
New Haven, Connecticut, recently,
for the purpose of organizing a State
Labor League. Resolutions sup
porting the claims of labor against
capital were presented, The atten.
dance was not very large.
Reliable authority says that the
Mobile & Ohio Railroad will be run
in connection with tho Iron Mountain
Railroad, of Missouri, the connect
ng points being Belmont, on the
Missouri side Of tho river, and Col.
lmbus, Kentucky.
In Now Orleans, Supervisor Crcery
he 22 inst, seized 10000 barrels of
whisky, about all in the city at whole.
ale. 1t is not charged that all have |
vaded the tax, but the owners must
present proof of payment before the
clease can be had. Most of the
'hisky seized was subsequently re e.
eased.
Edmonia Lewis, the colorcd sculp.
ress in Rome, is in stEaitcnod cir
aud has had no orders
or several ronths, though Rome is
unusually full, even with Americans.
shs Iss;sSa 90 ssll Nsv s'Hrgur," re- !
crving the right to exhibit it, in
which case sho will como with it
personally to tho United States.
One half of Prince Nopoleon's civil
ist of two million francs is paid, not
o him, but TO his creditors. The
Prince has squandorod the whole
.ower Of the Princess Clo;hildc, who
wned property worth upward of I've
ailhon francs in ltcr own right. She |
vas generous enough to place it at
ho disposal Of her spondthriit hus-
,apd.
Rev. James Marshall, Catholic priest
nd pastor of st, Bouiiaces Church,
n Chicago, who was arrested a short
ime ago, charged with forging the
'amo of Rev, Mr.. Albrooht, his pre-.
lecossor in the pastorship of the
,hurch, to an express receipt for
vine aud grapes, was discharged from
,rrest, the charges against him look
ng something like a conspiracy.
Not long ago a man named Breck-
uridgo visited St. Paul, Minnesota,
aud oil tho Democrats made haste to
pay their respects to him uudcr the
that he was the OK Rebel
general. They we're greatly disap-
pointed to learn that they had made
n mistake, aud wero absolutely dis
gusted when they found that tho gem
tlemau had never even been iu the
Confederate army.
An elderly gentleman named NJ,
G, Kilgore, residing at Washington,
Iowa, where he is the proprietor of
an extensive foundry, iuwped from a
fourth story window Of the Massasoit
Hou'e, Chicago, at an early hour re,
Gently, aud died in half an hour af-
terwards. Ho arrived at the Massa-
soft Thursday afternoon, aud during
the evening iudulgsd in the free use
of liquor,
Justice Bowling commenced ip
New York a few days since, at the
Tombs, an Investigation in the case
Of the late forgories upon Jay Cooke
Il Co., by which $4,000 was obtain,
ed from the Natiunal Bank of the
State of New York, Adidavits were
submitted by the Assistant Cashier
of Jay Cooke q Co, and paying tel
Ter Of the bank, declaring the cheeks
to be forgeries.
A young couple. engaged to be
married, we're recently walking in the