The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-03-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Kentucky rejects the constitutional
on suffrage.
Three inches of snow fell at Con-
cord. New Hampshire, on the 10th.
Hon. James Guthrie, of Kentucky,
died at his residence in Louisville on
the 18th inst.
The -4ppe0t's Little Rock special
says the fifteenth amendment passed
the Senate by 10 to 5.
DR.. Mudd has been released from
the Tortugas and arrived at Key
West on the 18th en- route North.
The House on the 18th, passed, by
11s to IA, joint resolution 10 ad-
journ Congress on the last Friday OF
this month.
During the last Congress 2,4S0
bills were introduced. Thus far
about 400 have been introduced in
the present Congress.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the dedication of the ma
tional soldiers monument, at Gettys-
burg, on the lst of July next.
The Atheneum at Railway, New
York, with the adjoining dwelling,
we're burned on the 11th inst. Loss
SIG, 900; insured for $4,000.
The Wisconsin Legislature has
adjourned sine die. Seven hundred
and four bills were signed by the
Governor, and dozen vetoed.
Captain Napoleon Collins, the gal
liant captor of the Florida, has been
reinstated to position and pay by the
first order of Secretary Boric.
One hundred and forty-one towns
in New Hampshire gave Stearns 4.79S
majority for Governor. Nine OF
of twelve Senators are Republicans.
Engine No. 10, on the Toledo and
Wabash Railway, exploded while in
motion with a passenger train near
Attica, Indiana, at noon on the 18th
inst.
Our new Democratic United States
Senator, Mr.. Thurman, goes on two
committees of the Senate--the Judi
ciary Committee and the Committee
on Post-offices and Post Roads.
There are great complaints in The
vicinity of Memphis from planters at
the scarcity of labor. Planters are
offering 25 per cent. higher rates
than last year, but hands are unwill
ing to make contracts.
The woman's rights paper In New
York says bills will soon be intro
duced into several Legislatures com
pelling hotels to receive women trav-
cling alone, unless there is positive
evidence of bad character.
At meeting of the stockholders
of the Dubuae & Sioux City Rail
road Company, held in Dubuque, on
the 18th, the lease of said road to the
Illinois Central Railroad Company
was unanimously confirmed.
Commander L. NJ. Power has been
commissioned Rear Admiral on the
retired list. W. G. Farrell, ofJeddo,
Michigan, and Franklin Hartslett, OF
Orrefield, Pennsylvania, have been
commissioned Assistant Surgeons.
Leading velocipede manufacturers
of New York and New England have
agreed to pay the Hanlon brothers
FIVE dollars royalty on each machine
of their patent, and will probably
pay the same on the Lallemont pat
ent.
The Senate Republican caucus
nominated the following persons ::
] ohm R. French, of North Caroline,
Sergeant-at arms John Nj. Morris,
OF Connecticut, Executive Clerk; a.
NJ. Clapp, of the Buffalo Express.
Public Printer.
The Merchants and Commercial
Travellers Association, OF Chicago,
have secured the repeal of the city
ordinance which required CONNER
cial travellers to pay license for
the privilege of soliciting trade or
selling goods by sample.
The Detroit Board of Trade, on
the 18th, adopted a memorial to the
recommending the trans
fer of the Sault st. Marie ship canal
rom the State to the Federal Gov
if the transfer will procure
an enlargement OF the canal.
A terrible hail storm at Memphis.
Sunday night, did great damage.--l
scarcely pane of glass was left in
he city. Shrubbery and fences were |
demolished. A negro man was found
lead the next morning who had been
;aeght in the storm while drunk and
,illed by the hail. Many hail stones
we're as large as hens eggs.
An inquest on one of the victims
4 fever on board the ship James
'oster, Jr., held at Staten Island.
esulted in a verdict that deceased
anne to his death from starvation
nd brutal treatment at the hands of
he three under officers of the ship.
The jury further state it to be their
elief that the Captain and Second
fate were ac,essorjes I
Inquiry at the War Department, ,
n Saturday, developed the fact that
% order has yet been issued revok.
no the recent assIpnment ofI ;opton