The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-01-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Earl of Shannon (Baron Carl
toni died in London on the oath inst.
An extensive fire in New Haven,
Mich, destroyed property to the
amount of 100000.
Ex-Rcbel Judges in Virginia are
endeavoring to force the payment Of
part of the rebel war debt.
Philadelphia is paying 20 cents a
pound for butter, and in some instan.
ces, as high as s5 and 90 cents.
The time for the departure of the
Greeks from the Turkish dominions
has been extended to five weeks.
A series of fairs for the benefit OF
the Fenian Brotherhood. is to be held
in the principal cities of the country.
DR.. W. A. McCracken, highly
respected citizen of Springfield, Ohio,
died in Vicksburg, Miss, Christmas
day.
The steamers John J.. Stevens and
Colorado brought $4,000 Mexican
dollars from Mexican ports to San
Francisco.
The London Times thinks the Ala
bama question must be finally adjudi-
Gated on the basis of the Stanly-John
son protocol.
The New York World thinks it
cannot be wrong to announce that Z.
B. Washburne will be Grants Secre
tary of the Interior.
Solicitor Buckley, in card, reviews
Representative Van Wyck's report,
and denies the. truth of the statements
therein concerning him.
The Congressional Library at Wash
ington contains 170,965 volumes, ex-
elusive of unbound pamphlets, period
icals, maps and manuscripts.
A fire in Lynn, Mass, Saturday,
destroyed the Lyceum Hall building,
Rubie's Block and other buildings,
causing total loss of about $500, 900.
A special election for representative
in Carroll CO., Ind, in which there was
a tie last October, resulted in the cleo
ton of Fairchild, Republican, by IA
majority.
1t is doubtful whether or not Mrs.
Augustus Dickens, sister in law of the
novelist, who died in Chicago, Christ
mas, from the effects of dose of NOR
phine, committed suicide.
Warike preparations in Turkey and
Greece continue. Some of the Wes-
tern Powers have little confidence that
the proposed conference will succeed
in cffecting satisfactory settlement.
Adyices from Venezuela state that
Generals Domengo, MONACO, Mem
phew and Ruperto Monagas, son OF
the deceased President Nonagas, are
!
for the Presidency. The
was tranquil.
Fractional currency printed during
asst week, $455, 900; shipments, $780,
289: National Bank currency issued.
s94, SIC; amount in circulation, $780,
767 ,044 amount Of fractional cuiren
,y destroyed, S290,lS4.
\ conference ofthe great European
powers is to assemble in Paris early in
January, having reference to the troub-
es between Turkey and Greece. Rus
ia has asked Of these powers sus-
pension of hostilities until after the
conference.
Hon. j. Z. Early, q prominent law
yer of St Joseph, Mis- /, was shot and !
lilled by Col j. a. Green, also law :
yer of the same place, on the 23d inst !
The dispute grew out of a newspaper :
lrticle rejecting on Green as LAWYER, ,
# which be supposed Early to be the :
uthor.
A man in Southampton, Eng, has
distributed tracts and placards an
ouncing the second coming of the 1
iessiah, in the person of John Coch is
an. The police are fooIishly prose- c
uting him for public blasphsmy, in :,
5eai of treating him as a harmless if
matte. h
Two heavy failures occurred in New a,
-ork last week-Lathrep, Ludding o.
IN & Co., and Lawrance, Slade & Y
o. The former has been doing busi- y =
ess for twenty years, and stood among a,
lie best in the city. Their suspension re
due to the failure of their customers til
the West and South. Other fail TO
'es are anticipated and financial mat u
RS are almost in Ssats quo. n