The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-08-27

mess, mas not the uarinS VI pohtiCai
sagscity to place himself in the lead
ersbip of the "forward movement"
Commercial.
NEWS OF THEDAY.
st. Petersburg is to have a jockey
club.
Only one theater in Chicago is now
open.
Another theater is to be erected in
London.
Malaga turned 1,950,OOO boxes Of
raisins last year.
The Grand Duchess Maria, OF Rus,
sia, rides velocipede.
France has 337 theaters; Italy,
29S; Spain. l6s; and England, l59
A man in Pesth committed suicide
because his wife had grown so fat.
There is an association hostile to
vaccination in Lancanhire, Eng
land.
Seven sisters in Wright county,
Minnesota, work their fathers farm,
and sold last year 1000 bushels OF
grain.
Nearly two hundred divorce suits
we're instituted by discontented wives
in Cincinnati last year.
Cherries this year have been so
plentiful in England as to sell at the
rate OF four pounds for penny.
A single leaf of the Victori Regi
at Ghent floated 264 pounds OF bricks
that were piled upon it.
Ophenheim, the Great Egyptian
banker in Paris, five years ago was a
pack pedlar in the East.
Chinese secret societies offer a re-
ward of $40 piece for the murder
Of foreigners.
Casteler, the Spanish revOlutionist,
is delegate to the Peace Convention
at Geneva.
The peaches sent to the Paris mar
ket the last week in July were sold
at from seven to nine francs for q
box of ten.
DIR. Colenso, the African Bishop
who questions the authenticity of the
book of Genesis, has Oeen very ill A.
Naples.
The largest Sunday-school w. th,
world is at Stockport, England, ant
numbers about 5000 scholars Their,
are 400 teachers.
Lucy Thurman, a colored woman
ll9 years old, is livln. in Clinton
Ky. She was not purse of Wash
ington, but was at Yorktown.
The pmfit of one years scavenger
ing in New York public streets, un
der the contract as at present ar
ranged, amounts to 1895, 200.
Father WcMahOn, long held as {
Fenian convict by the Canadian au
thOrities, arrived in Buffalo recently
after An absence of over three years
The MetAodist reports revivals in
Sweden, which have within the past
niy.e months increased their members
from 424 to 929.
John Lee, an actor, eighty years o.
age, once the private secretary Of
Edmund Kean, recently played Shy
lock at. the Richmond Theater, Eng
land.
The California Pioneers are to pre-
sent a $1,000 cane to Mr.. Seward
the head composed of forty-One tri
angular pieces Of quartz from the
leading mines of the State.
Rev. DIR. Todd, who ofliciated 2at
the "last spike'' ceremony, has re-
ceived a ring made from the golden
spike. and bearing the words, "The
Mountain Wedding"
Letters received from the White
Sulphur Springs state that Mr.. Geo
Peabody is rapidly failing, and bu,
little hopes are now entertained fol
his recovery.
In spite OF the repute in which
English cutlery is held, an order has
been received in San Francisco from
a prominent Londoner, for a set ol
table cutlery.
1t is said that Ike Marvel had to
pay the American hotel at Binghamp.
ton $500 and costs, and apologize for
writing in one of Harper's publica.
tions a slanderOus account of the inn.
Bishop Kip, of California, and
Bishop Scott, OF Oregon, agree with
Bishop Whitehouse OF Illinois, in the
desire to expunge the word "Prot-
estant" from the name of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church.
A yellow veil is the most effica-
oious, so say chemists, to prevent the
skin from freckling. Freckles are
nothing more nor less than the
darkening of the salts Of iron con
tanned in the blood by the chemical
action of the SUMS rays.
A patent has been taken out in the
Island of Jamaica for working up
new fibre called the cocoon vine, and
a large factory is being erected for
that purpose. The fibre can he used
for mating, stuffing for bedding and
other purposes.
Anna and Julia Cleary, who have
set type for the Troy Times for the
past fifteen years, receiving the same
pay as male compositors, have laid
down the "stick' and gone into pri-
vate life with snug little sum laid
up from their earnings.
Choy- Chew and Sing-man, the Chi
nese merchants, at present visiting
New York express themselves highly
pleased with everything they see in
the metropolis, Choy-C Chew thinks
that several millions Of Cinnamon
will locate in California in the next
ten years.
Capt. Shaw, of the London Fire
Brigade, is about to visit the United
States for the purpose OF studying
the arrangements which are carried
out by the fire departments of this
country.
THIRTY CoLoRED MEN.-The pa
pers all over the South bear evidence
TO the thrift and industry of the col
ored men who have lately been eman-
cipated. The cry that the negroes in
9 state of freedom would be care.
less, improvident set, has been aban-