The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-01-29

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1t is stated that President johnson
would like to be next Governor OF
Tennessee.
The insurgents have been repulsed
in their attempt 10 burn the city ol
Manzillo, Cuba.
The reports from Cuba by tele-
graph tell of serious disturbance in
places hitherto peaceful.
McGee's murderer, Whalen, is IN
Jail at Ontario, sentenced to be hang
ed on the 11th of February.
The Pennsylvania railroad car
shops at Altoona were destroyed by
fire on Thursday night. Loss $780,,
900; insured.
The new Clark school building in
Chicago, erected at cost Of $50. 900,
to seat 1000 pupils, was dedicated
on the odd.
1t is reported that all the militia
now operating in Crittenden county,
Arkansas, are TO be mustered out,
except one hundred and fifty mount
ed men.
Late Arizona advices state that O
sickness Of malignant type prevails
at Tuscon, and that almost every
person in the place is attacked, and
mary have died.
One-half of the business portion OF
the town of Bradford, Pa, was de-
.troyed by fire on the morning OF
Jan. oath. The loss is estimated at
Sl45, 900, generally well insured.
Suit has been commenced in the
Districts Court of Franklin county.
Kansas, by c. c. Hutchison, against
Rev. Robert Atkinson, Treasurer of
the Ottawa Indian University, for
$4,000.
Baez, President of the revolution
ary little Republic of San Domingo,
has succeeded in negotiating a loan
with a London firm. Two millions
is the sum, secured by copper and
coal mines and guano deposits.
The st. Louis RepuJlican, in view
of the conflicting statements as to the
rightfulness of the destruction CT
Black Kettles camp. calls upon Con-
gress to appoint special committee
to thoroughly investigate the subject
At the session OF the American
branch OF the Universal Peace Union,
in Washington, a resolution was
passed that all idea of capital punish
ment must be done away with as at
war with the law of love.
f. w. Wise, a photographer OF
Hannibal, Missouri, was arrested
recently for manufacturing counter
felt postal currency. A considera-
BILE quantity of currency, presses,
ing, DC, was found in his establish
ment.
Australian letters fully confirm
the massacre at Poverty Bay, New
Zealand, by the Maoris. Thirty
three whites and about twenty friend
ly natives were killed, and the Gras-
porous settlement was entirely blot
ted out.
The Central Pacific Railroad is
completed to twenty-one miles be-
yond Elko, 4S1 east of Sacramento,
and within 1SO miles of Monument
Point, head of Salt Lake. The track
is being laid At the rate OF two miles
| per day.
At DANNY, ILL.,, twenty-three miles
from Chicago, Thursday, a wealthy
farmers daughter, aged 16, was kill
| ed by throwing herself under NOV
ing train, on the Northwestern rail
road, committing suicide because her
parents refused to let her marry a
Young man.
A Rio Janelio letter Of December
% confirms the account OF the rout
of Lopez and his army at Viletta.--
The Brazilian loss is placed at 1000.
but it is understood that the Empe-
ror admits 1t TO have been much
heavier. Angostura had not yet
been attacked, but a division was
marching against it.
The Ohio Congressional delegation
held a caucus on Saturday night for
purpose of considering the business
before Congress and promoting una
nimity. Boutwell's suffrage bill, now
before the House, was discussed
The delegation will not favor its
adoption. They will however favor
an amendment to the Constitution
granting unive rsal suffrage.
The Navy Department is in re-
ceipt of dispatches from Rear Admi
raj Davis, who says that he anchored
inside the Paraguayan batteries at
on the 81 of December,
and communicated with Lopez, who
was six or seven miles in the interior.
Lopez came down to the river and
had three hours conference with
the Admiral. Correspondence ensu-
ed, and on the 10th instant Messrs.
Bliss and Masterman were delivered
up.
The attempt to lynch Miller, the
in Prairie Du Chien, ILL.,,
on the 22d, failed. A mob of over
600 threatened the Sheriff, who was
assisted by special copstables. Hun
dreds of country people assembled to