The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-08-20
WHOLE NUMBER $40.
VARIETIES.


, ers are about to migrate to Spain.
pastor of one of the Knoxville churches
S was at one time worth S250O00. But it was IN
oil wells, and slid away from him.
Abt, the German song writer. has been in
| vited TO become the conductor of the Saen-
, SeTfest at Cincinnati this year
Edmund About complains that English and
american travellers commit acts of vandsi-
SIN in Egypt.
The Californians talk of making Alaska
regular summer watering place.
Illinois is the first northern state TO organize
. coiored men as part of the militia.
During the last three years ,2201 horses have
perished by fire in New York.
, The muslset that revenged Ellsworth has
been deposited in the Albany museum.
\ half-dozen ready-made houses are TO be
Shipped 70 Yokohama from Chicago
Some fine plumbago mines near RALEIGH
North Carolina, are about To be worked
live toad was found in solid luTap ofcoaI
IN indianapolis one day last week
II German sewing machines are run by clock
work, which runs for three hours after win,i-
ing up.
II is reported that some of the Lynn shoe
| ,DoSses are considering Il proposition TO run
their factories by Chinese labor.
The Texas papers generally unite in the
statement that no damage of any consequence
to the cotton crop has been done by the worms,
the rains, or the recent Hood.
| The total amount of subscriptions paid to-
wards the French expedition 20 the north pole
has reached 2ji,92O francs; the sum required
was Sl0O0UO.
Three card monte is licensed for three dol
lars q day in Michigan. The same license
covers thimble rigging
There are one hundred and five defendants
To eianeery suit now pending in one of the
courts in Chicago
The Nevada Mint Mt Carson City is nearly
ready 10 commence work
] y London girl caught leproSy from her false
lchignOn, and has died.
The savannah Repa6licaa nominates Fill
more and Lee for lS72
There are now four thousand miles ofhorse
railroads in the United States against four
/ hundred in 1850.
President Grant is to take 4 pleasure tour
over the Erie Railway, leaving New York on
Friday morning. He will remain a lew days
a. Cory aud at Kane, Pa
Henry Ahquah, King of winnebah, on the
west coast oil Africa. is announced as agent
| for The IFtS, I(ricd Herald a newspaper edited
and printed by natives
| The eldest son of the VieerOy of Egypt Is to
begin three years course of study at oxford
University, as member ofChrist Church, in
October term He has, however, accom- panied
his father back to Egypt
The Des Moines Register says the boys of
that county have had the pleasure of '.shut-
ting OFF the wind" of 4,6I0 gophers, for which
the county has paid SS5-iO bounty on the
sealps-
Richard oxleby, conductor on the Grand
his sixteen years OF service, travelled i've hum
dred and seventy thousand miles
Joseph Cooley a young lawyer of Preston
burg, Kentucky, died a short time since, it is
thought, from ht of intoXicatiOn. He was
found sitting upon his horse, dead.
On fifth avenue, New York, every house,
with two exceptions, iSclOsed between Seven
seenth and Nineteenth streets.
The farmers oft'am.ien, y. J.. estimate that
je9,001 baskets will be required Tor the tOnI-
10 trade in that vicinity this season.
Vice President Colfax says: II put this pre-
,iictiOn on record and won't wait ten years
10 see il fulfilled. that California and OREGON
are going to almost rival New England in
manufactures.
Whipple Williams, of Bethel, Ct..an old man
OF y, recently astonished the natives by now
ing, in three hours, grass which became 1850
pounds of hay. -.. .t-
Hundreds of bushels of cherries rotteSi. on
the trees in Putnam county. Ohio, the owners
| thinking the low price would not Justify their
ri.
Seeing deputy constable in town. a West
neid Mas, liquor dealer had his door 5iraped
Some Indiana farmers arg givioe, baIT,l,.,
wheat crop to whoever WIN -
thresh the whole
The Pacific Railroad is bringing fresh fruits
from California; and the despatch OF q iruit
ear laden with plums, pears and grapes Tor
Chicago and New York, opens up the prospect
OF n large fruit trade between our Atlanficand
Pacific States.
An inchoate city in California is named
'.Humbug Point" 1910
An Egyptian paper, published in Cairo, in
forms the ladies OF that city that "tlie first OF
ornaments is cleanlineSs-that of the body
consisting in taking a bath once MONTH
Gangs of ysung thieves called .'BuuSers.'
abound in Lewiston. Maine II ey are COM
posed of boys from eight TO fourteen years OF
Ige are thoroughly organized, and live by
begging and piifering.
The Health Officer, at Toledo, has had the
Manhattan Canal filled up sanitary pre-
caution
Milwaukee claims 9O,OOO people, Of whom, it
is said, 50, ,99S drink lager.
Queen Victoria presented Nova Scotia
woman who recently gave birth 10 trlQietS
with three pounds sterling
Frederick Douglass, Jr, was married few
days ago, in Cambridge, Mass.
\ lady gathering berries in field IN Central
New York was very much frightened at dis
covering a corpse with its throat Gus. Sheran
ior assistance, and when she returned found
chat il was only some rogue VINO had staiued
ais neck with berry juice, and prOfited b. her
alarm TO steal her pail OF berries.
Grs,sshoppers in X 'ntucky chew tobacco,
and farmers consider il an expensive vice.
Senator Sherman has been investing some
Of his spare greenbacks in u fifty acfe LOT adj
oining the city OF st. Paul, for which he paid
SO per acre.
John III. Surratt is in the eommiSsiGIl BUSH
ness at No. 30 Light street wharf, Baltimore.
lice from January /, lSJ0, to December -, lso,
IN the Metropolitan District, OF New York, was
dB2S. OF these there were natives Oi the
United States, 2Bi,l29; OF Ireland, 54S,5 {; OF
iermany, 72,S0; OF other countries, 15,s2;.
The family of Henry Harkless, consisting OF
himself vile, and three children, were poisJti-
ID at Wheatland, Mercer Co., Pa the other
lay, by eating toadStoOls, which they inis6ooh
for mushrooms. At last accounts, two of the
children were dead, and the other sufferers
were in critical situation
Tie Louisiana Planters Banner speaks of
Zen white men having cultivated y Plantation
~ thoroughly as ever was done % negroes,
md that they have suffered far less Dy si.;iS
aeSs-ShOwinS that white laDOreis can s.anu
Il as well as the blacks
A Bridgeport paper describes walk ING cane
composed of four hundred and i<;y-lnree pie
s.ssS OfIeather, and made from Il par 0f old
boots worn by President Llnctiln- -sas
A Bostonian has raised, this season, on y
plot of less than two acres, twenty-five hun
1red dollars worth o. Strawberries.
Men have been caught stealing and selling
the Union square sparrows, in New York:
The coinage at the Branch Mint in san
Francisco for July was S2,O4o,0JO; since JaiIua-
~, l, was S6,OOO,UJ0. -rar
The Western Pacific Railroad is completed
between Sacramento City and Stockton, and
regular trains commenced running on Mon
day.
Weston walked 80 miles in 10 hours and y
minu.es, at Dubuque, Iowa, on the 15h inst
He mad to walk hail mile backward, OaL IN
The fires continue to rage in t.Is woods Of
Washington Territory, doing immense DAM
age to the timber, and owing TO tne dense
smoke the navigation OF Puget Sound is rem
dered dangerous.
About l50 Blackfoot and Pigeon Indians at
tackled an OK train, 70 miles iron CoOk, on tife
stu inst. 4 white man, named Samuel Pax
on, was killed and another wounded Two
Indians killed and several wounded
The tracIS-laying on the Leavenworth, Afch-
in>On and North Western Railroad W5ts cOuI-
menced on the IIth inst. In twenty days
20 ST. Louis, without crossing the river or
changing cars.
A young Canadian girl, who ran away froHt
home and went to Detroit, has been a.rTesleti
for vagrancy. When offered her liberty IN
ease she would go back home, she showed her
Mister; like the States in prison, better than
Canada at liberty. I'll take my chances on
this side"
Lewis Carter, a negro employed on q farm
near Indianapolis, was impOled on y pltcsl-
fork one day last week. He under tOok %
slide OF a load Of hay and landed on q lork
ne9d by another workman. who Wes resting
with the handle on the ground Although tic
tines passed through the mau's bOuy his
wound Is not considered mortal. efF
An exhibition of postage stamps is now be-
ing held in Paris England makes Tie best
show, she has thirty-four coiOnis.s each
with a different design. The United states
having beautiful appearance. The turkish
stamps contain the year OF the tight OF Mohanl-
met, the year OF the reign of the Sultan, and
|tke yalue Of the stamp IN oriental characters.
kaplapS commenced 70 lssns ssaaeps iaSl year,