The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-22
NEWS AND PERSONAL.

Bayard Taylor will lecture for this
season only.
George D. Prentice is in unusually
good health. :
Udolpho Wolfe bequeathed $780,
900 to his children.
General Burnside is st Northamp.
ton, Massachusetts.
General Joseph E. Johnson is in
the insurance business.
Bishop Early, of Virginia, recently
quite ill, is out of danger.
Peabody intends to PASS the winter
i in the South of France.
Gobright is the oldest Washing
ton newspaper correspondent.
General Braxton Bragg has re
turned from Canada to the south. :
General John A. Dix is at Lenox,
Massachusetts,, with his family.
SojoUrner Truth is the guest OF
the transient truth, Theodore Tilton.
Ida Lewis recently appeared in
private theatricals and tableaux.
General Lee is President Of q
Bible Society at Lexington, Virginia.
A son of Oliver Wendell Holmes
has become Summers private secre
tary.
Most of the stock has been SUBJ
scribed for new cotton mill at Baton
Rouge.
Olive Logan has had an oil-well at
Kitanning, Pennsylvania, named af-
ter her.
Brick Pomeroy is determined not
to be Brick dust yet awhile; he is
growing better.
1t is said E. A. Pollard is negotia.
ting for the purchase of morning
paper at Washington. -
/ A grandson of John James Audu-
bon, the great ornithologist, is an in
surance agent at New Haven.
A cat in Warwick, Massachusetts,
has litter of two kittens and red
squirrel, which she nurses with equal
care.
Deer are so plentiful in all the
country adjacent to Petersburg, Vir-
ginia, that there is little difficulty in
killing them. 4 e
The house at which General Lee
surrendered the Army of Northern
Virginia to General Grant is adver-
tised for sale.
An Iowa paper says: "It's all
mistake about Henry Clay Dean be.
ing q vain man. Soft soap has the
least effect on him of any man We
ever saw
! General George B. Mcclellan will
spend most of the winter at Washing
ton. 1t is not the first winter the
General will have spent mostly a
Washington.
James Elgin, of Woodford county
Kentucky, has hatched and raised
over eight hundred chickens from
twenty hens, this season two roos
ters helped.
Two men, one of them the sheriff
have made narrow escapes fron
being hung, recently, by the rop
attached to the courthouse bell i
Bloomington, Indiana.
Fernando Wood could not put u
with homemade furniture from hi
family tree to adorn his Washingto
house, and so he is getting foreig
wood veneered at Paris.
Burton ii. Cartright preached til
fret sar,,,e.. ev~- delivered ia Iowa
in 1924. He broke prairie on wee
days, and took the Lords field ol
TSunday, among the carly settlers.
A man named Talley, in Bedfor,
county, Virginia, has slain one hur
dred and twenty-six bears. 1t wa
the work of o lifetime, during whic
the bears, we suppose, "kept Talley.'
Near Paducah there is an immens
deposit of clay, suitable for the man
ufacture of stoneware, which is shp
ped to st. Louis and Cincinnati.
mandatory is suggested al Padu
cab.
/ Rev. Albert Bushnell, during th
last twentysix years lnissionar,
on the western coast of Africa, ha
recently returned to this country
and is now visiting his friends i
IOberlin.
American Minister Curtin put th
Huss banquet at Prague in an up
roar of enthusiasm by speaking il
Bohemian and Russian it was 81
much more than they had a right tt
expect of an American Minister, yol
know. .-
General Lander's war horse give
his neigh to the story that he is I
Boston hack horse; he is shown,
the young colts how fields are Won. OF
farm in New Hampshire, where hi
mistress (Mrs. Lander) has him kind
ly cared for. - --
While Alvan Bradley was saving
in his mill at Sheffield, Vermont, tht
other day, the saw going at the rat,
of one hundred cuts per minute, .
squirrel ran into the mill, on the los
and up the saw teeth into the loft
without injury.
AT the death of negro woman
named Carter, in Des MONIES, Iowa
On the 10Th ult., her mother, who wa:
III years old last July, was present
She was borr. in the eastern part o.
Virginia, and was slave until hel
lseventy-fifth year.
A respectable, well-to-do farmer
named Costello, living for many year.
about seven miles from Dubuque
Iowa, was arrested recently for the
murder of his brother thirty year:
ago, and IS now on his way to Ire
land for trial. He has wife and
family there, and leaves another wife
and family in Iowa.
Tne body OF a man supposed to
have committed suicide was found
near the Long Bridge, at Mobile. on
Saturday. On his person were found
handkerchief marked 81. p. Gutz-
weller" a gold ring bearing on the
outside the initials 81. Z. g." and
on the inside q motto in German,
from which it was ascertained that 1t
was an engagement ring; card
marked Plankmater Hotel MiIMau-