The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-01-14
ITEMS OF NEWS.

I The Alton House, at Alton, Illinois
: was burned Saturday. Estimated loss
: 5000. Insurance not stated.
The Voce de Cuba suggests. a d
, means Of restoring loyalty in Cuba,
the pOpulating Of the country hy
! SpaniaTds.
The Havana Prensa announces the
: killing Of thirty unarmed men in the
: vicinity Of Manzanilla. 3 few days
: since, by the insurgents.
Receipts 81 Milwaukee Of wheat,
and -four reduced 70 wheat, for 1853.
foot up nearly 22,0o0,000 bushels.
Shipments ., 900, ,009 bushels.
About two hundred Chinese arrived
in New Orleans, Saturday. ty way 81
St. Louis. They left yesterday, 10y
railroad, for Texas
R. B. Caldwell, implicated in the
New York Custom House frauds, was
discharged at Montreal on Friday, but
was rearrested on a charge Of forgery.
. Tom Allen declines 10 90 to New
York TO make arrangements 10 fight
Jim Mace. He is tired of the busi-
ness, and will not enter the ring again
unless forced to do so by his friends
A Washington special says the Par
aguayan question is looming up in
Washington under the manipulation
of young Lopez, and that the United
States Government is likely 10 take u
share in the settlement oft.
> Charles Brown, of Kingsville, Ash
tabula County, Ohio, has hog which
|. will be three years old in February,
that is seven feet six inches in length,
seven feet two inches in girth, three
feet high, and weighs nearly twevle
hundred pounds.
No action has been taken by the
United States Court in the C ase of the
alleged Cuban steamer Anna, now in
possession of the United States author
tiles at Charleston, S. G. A motion to
yacate the warrant of arrest will be
made to-day.
The Supreme Court of Alabama has
decided there has been no property in
slaves since 1863 that every judg-
ment given by any of the Courts in
Alabama, from 1861 to 1865, is null
| NOlN, anu Illdb oil OlllCCtS vi
Courts and the Legislature were mere
usurpers during that period.
The weather at Poughkeepsie n. Y,
last night, was cold, and freezing hard
The river is filled with ice, and is
closed at CastIeton. The steamer
Connecticut passed there at seven
o'clock last night for New York, load
ed down to her guards with freight.
Boatmen predict that the river Will be
closed there to-day.
An Indian Peace Dance was held on
Monday night and all day Tuesday,
by the band of Short-wing (the Win
nebago chief and other Indians from
the surrounding country, about sixty
in all, few miles west of La Crosse,
Wisconsin. There was a venison
feast on Tuesday. ShOrtwing is a
temperance man, discouraging the
use of liquors among his band.
Navigation is aga in suspended both
above and below st. Louis, The river
is full of heavy floating ice, and the
ferry boats have great difficulty in
crossing. There is some prospect of
the ice gorging above the bridge piers.
If it should it would leave open the
river and free navigation South. The
weather has been very cold for two
days past, but was mOderating last
night.
The United States steamer Yantic
is being fitted out in the most COM
plete manner with sounding apparat-
u.s., and the necessary material for
running a line of deep sea soundings
for submarine telegraph cable, which
is to connect the West India Islands
with South America, on the eastern
coast, and which, in time, will have a
branch to Aspinwall, and thence to
Panama, and down the west coast of
South America.
Information received from Texas
states that cargo of about three hun
dred working Cinnamon, en- route to
that State, are now daily expected to
arrive. The are on the steamer Miss
issippi, and embarked at st. Louis
Their arrival is looked for with great
interest. They Cinnamon are from San
Francisco, where they have been for
the last three years. Many of them
were employed in building the Central
Pacific Railroad.
The privilege of landing cable on
the Azores Island has been granted to
an American company, which pro-
poses to lay line from New York to
that point, and thence to England,
France and Holland. So much of the
stock as has been issued has been paid
up in full, and the balance will be
issued only so fast as funds may be
needed for the completion of the work.
1t will probably be completed during
the year.
The telegraph operators in Memphis
refused to strike. New Orleans is the
only city south of there that has
struck. Operators from Memphis and
other points have gone there to take
the places of the strikers. The Men,
phis Typographical Union, Saturday,
passed resolutions sympathyzing with
the strikers, but declined to adopt the
suggestion of the Nashville union in
reference to refusingto set up the press
dispatches.
A bill was introduced in the Ken
lucky House, Thursday last, and made
the special order for the 18th, prOvi-
ding for a substitution of hard labor
in all cases where whipping is now
the penalty. Resolutions were offer
ed and referred protesting against
Congressional measures now pending,
regulating the jurisdiction of the Su-
preme Court and the power of the
Executive. Bills looking to a revis-
ion of the Constitution were also in
troduced. The House appointed a
committee to repair to Louisville and
examine into the matter and system
of the inspection of tobacco.
AT Charleston, S. c., Friday night,
a colOred man, for whom ticket had
been purchased by white man, ap-
piled for admission to the dress circle
of the Academy of Music, and was re-
fused admittance by Manager John L.
Ford, of Baltimore. The lessee, an
other cOlOred man, applied for re-
served seat, and was also refused.
Saturday morning warrants were is
sued upon the affidavits of the two
colOred men, and Mr.. Ford was ar
rested, at the Academy, on a charge
of violating the State law carrying
out the provisions of the Civil Rights
bill. He gave bail to appear at the
next term of the court of General ses-
sion.
Since the 1st of January, the rate of
postage between this country and
England, is only six cents. One year
ago the rate was twenty-four cents;
then a reduction was made to twelve
cents, now half that figure. This in
deed, is an important reduction, and
one that will give satisfaction to mill
lions on both sides of the Atlantic
While this reduction appears to be a
matter that will benefit the people
only, it will in reality increase the
vast sums received for ocean postal
service. Hundreds of thousands of
people in England and Ireland were
unable to write-except at long inter-
vals-to friends in this country when
the rate was twenty-four cents. That
may seem a small sum in this coun-
try, but in England a man looks many
times at a shilling before he sticks it
on an envelope. Shillings are valued
there far more than dollars in Ameri-
ca. When the rates were reduced, it
was found the number of letters in
creased more than one-half, and the