The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-06-18
GLEANINGS.

GLEANINGS.
Edwin Booth has married Miss McViclzer.
| Gambling houses in New Orleans pay
yearly license ofs50O0.
| An extensive Agricultural machine shop is
| TO bc erected in \enia.
Thirty trunk are said to contain the ward
robe OF our new Minister to England.
| Victor Hugo ought to he the man Who
laughs. He gets Sl,;D line for his last story.
During the week ending May y. more then
GCl0 scandinavian immigrants arrived at CHI
cggo.
y temperance society has been formed in
iowa, the members of which agree neither to
treat" nor be treated.
Amanda J. Craig has obtained a verdict
against Elisha Sprague for one hundred thou
sond dollars damages.
! The Turner's OF New Orleans have erected a
Turner Hall costing about S7U,UJ. Ii IS one ot
the finest lii this country.
The Republicans SofWaShingtoa City elected
The city ticket including all the colo.ed can
didates for municipal honors
| The Presbytery OF Londonderry Mass. hIs
adopted the basis of the proposed Presbyterian
Reunion.
The trial Of Wm. :. Robinson, ut ,Iaciz=o
4 willie. Illinois. for the murder Of General Ne
| Donueil, has resulted in his acqultal,
The contest over the Mobile Post Office has
heen closed by the appointment of i. q. Brdm-
berry, rice Byron @. Pierce. suspended.
The closing Of tho tobacco factories nj Gran
willie. y. - for alleged revenue frauds, has
thrown about to0 persons out of work.
The imports of wheat into Great Britain this
wear have averaged ~ per cent. less in amount
tlIan during the corresponding months Of ISIS
Three whales were lately caught in Long
Island Sound, from which the cap,ois obtain
ed $1,000 worth of oil and Sl,0C9 worth of bone.
A German paper at Doylestowp prints q
fifty-four line poem, praising "sourkraut' and
prelerring IL to boiled sweet corn and sweet
corn pudding.
The latest style of wedding cards in New
! York Is 10 have the names Of the b.iGe and
groom. groOnismen, brides maids, and uslIers
all on one card
The weather-wise in England are predicting
a cold and unprDductive season because the
ash trees remained ba:e long after the oaks
We're In full foliage.
Joseph Neufnan has established y silk fac
tory IN san Francisco. with a new raeilnglna-
chine OF his own invention. he Is now pro-
ducins some very hne silk icr ha-S.
Mrs. Dixon. who shot her husband two weeks
ago. at Rockford Illinois, has not yet r'cov-
to talk intell!glbly.
Senator Sprague was serPnaded in New York
on Mondty nisht In reipol,; i d, SUD u, t,t IA,
woriting men.
Joseph NIulteueh i,,as been. awarded si.oo
unnecessary aMTv,utsua Of lis toes while n
patient in tie >;. LcU.- C-ly Hospital.
In New Yo.ls ciIy q eIc Z. aa o1lce for The
these Ia his col-rfrsi i',i'- ;-l sroFant Irvine
may pass !Hr :; man O. genius and InteiIsri.
The Illinois Leg stature, .t - recent session.
made the t.eatmcn; a. :he insane special
matter Of consideration, anI made liberal
provisions for their care l.. tl.e future.
Rain water caught during May or the fir:
week in June. VIII keep q long time perfectly
pure and sweet. some ctI9ai in iS2s was pro-
nounced IS sweet rs spring wafer ia 1850.
A gray squirrel entered house near Peach
Bottom, Penn, one day iast week. and alta elk
cd n child abOnt six years oil Befole he was
secured he had bitter two ocher persons Sc
verciy.
4 new school fpr the f1.sr:l.'io,, Of Chinese
girls has recently been opened in san Fran
cisco by Mrs. Carrie Cole. VINO WIS for nine
years missionary NJ Hong Kong Canton, AMI
Ningpo.
The French Mutual benevolent Society Of |
san Franc.>cp numbers Sy;s! rIe,nDrrs. Their |
receipts during the last year y-ere 81. L. :tnl |
their expenses sl6,i76 They have built hos |
piial.
The Germans of Chicago are rais.ng a sub |
scriptiOn for the erection of monument at |
Berlin, Prussia in memory of the centennial |
birthday OF the philosopher q. i. VI. Hegei, |
Aug. p, 1870.
Women charm. rs a general Thing in pro- |
portion rs they arc good. y plain face with = /
large heart behind it is worth world Of
heartlesS beauty. Men who have tried both
uniformly agree TO this.
The Jaynesvilie, Wis. Common Council /
have been troubled with the dog question and 4
have finally resolved IL at ''all dogs are to bc
or shot. except dogs from the country /
comingin on business"
The SacrOmeIto and YoiO Bird &c across the !
Sacramento River. was built at a co OF about !
35O.O)a. 1t is so feet long, has double track
and turning draw in the middle and rests ON /
seven piers Of substantial piling.
Notwithstanding the large amount of wine
produced in California. the Pacific coast i'm
ports directly from France at least four hum
dred thousand dollars wcrth of sparkling
wines every year.
Large portions of the besr cotton lands of
Mississippi have been flooded by the recent
heavy rains in that quarter DESTROYING In
cotton planted ard making repianting nee
essaTy.
a co;emporary speaks of an individual
"who buys one or two shares of stock in every
railroad and bank. in order TO go TO all the
annual elections and eat all the annual din
neTS."
There is temporary home for lost and
starving dogs in London, where some 25.0c0
are chloroformed to death and the valuable
specimens SOLD
An elm, with trunk measuring seven feet
in diameter two feet from the ground and
three feet sixty feet from the ground v-aS rp-
Gently cut down in Vermont. 1t WINS nbout
200 years old, and made aj cords OF wood.
Gold has been found in New Hanpshire
bat the report adds, ,'taat the quartz when
nure. and worth more for this purpose than
the gold found in it,.
The Suh-Censyls Committee is SIN In Sos
sion in Washington. and may remain some /
weeks. Thus far they have come to no deter
minati0n rs to the forms and character of
schedules for taking the census.
General Spinner saws that the money re-
Gently stolen, in Sante Fe, from the govern
Snent depository, was in notes of large do 4
nominations, of which the Treasury Depart
mert haVea a complete record
\ New York physician reports n curio,,s
case Of dog, which had just died. having
fresh blood passed into the carotid The dead I:
animal was revived. stood on his feet, waggea
his tail and lived over twelve hours when lie
died again. r-...
The Pennsylvania TraininC School for fee
ble-minded children, ut Media, has seeured
5O00 Of the State appropriation. The whole
in the aggregate amount 10
si,.cj,e0. he total amount being about the
same as it has been for the past two years.
ThG, Stoekbridge Indians in Wisconsin are
rapidly disappearing. This tribe once num-
beTed l0U00 warriors. They iln1nierated from
20 New York in l3e9 10 Oaio in
1902 and To Wisconsin in ISL many Of them Il
having resided in Stockbridge until a few I
years ago Tho remnant or the tribe, which 4
now number about 100 men, women, and chill l
iren, reside at Shawano, and are suffering for
food.
\ clock which has just been completed for
the Cathedral at BauVais contains 81, 900 wheels
and indicates. among other things. the DAYS
0f ttie week. ear Jt6 signs OIL
the zodiac, the equation OF time, the course of
the planets, the phases of the moon, and the d
time at every capital in the world, the nova +
Die fcasts of one hundred years, the saints | Il
lays. Sc. Perhaps the most curious part OF the :
is that which gives the additional !,
lay in leap year. and which, consequently, Is .
called into action only once IN four years. n
The clock is wound up every eight days. The
main dial IS twelve feet in diameter, and The
otal cost exceeds Si1,0si.
When train of cars, on which there was a
.safl zaf,a LOT
lay last week, il was discovered that the wire
.auze placed over the entrance tc the hive TO
How the bees air, and at the same time 20 O
prevent their escaping il;iii oeen ulSplaeed- ~
rhe bees had made the discovery, and began
@ swarm about the ears of the officials. 4 p
iozcn or more passengeTs who ran 10 the SPOT X
o learn the excitement. got their eyes str,ng
,s the price OF their curiosity The train M
started: and the refractory little creatures m
to the hive Were observed on the m
wing q few rods behind the trains doing their
,est to Keep UP. geneTally coming in as the lcl