The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-07-02
NEWS.
The debt of the city of PhiIadelphiais
ECO 200 0oa


The debt of the city of PhiIadelphiais
$G3, ,593, 900.
Rufer and Esner, the Cincinnati mur-
derers and creInationiSr~ Of yOIng Schil-
Ter. are to have a new trial.
Watertown. Mas, l,a~ cow four
years old which weighs :, So pounds.
Tie Boston Iiceu>. board lI;.- received
2,O01 applications for liquor !iceu~e>,
and granted 600
Such thing IL d newspaper was an
known in Japan "a few years ago, ilo-vit
boasts of 81 or more.
The cornerstone of the u-E city hail
at Providence, Il. l.. Was laid with i'm
posing Masonic ceremonies. Thursday.
Ii will cost, when complrtrd. SGSj. coo.
Tie watch factory at Freeport. ILL.,.
was opened to the public last week. at
which time the first watch oi rh,. iu~ti-
tuition was manufactured.
All efforts of the Russian government
To prevent the Mrnnonitrs from ciui-,ra-
ting TO this country have failed, and an
entire colony Of 80, 900 are coming over.
Milwankee's census shows a pOpula-
letter carriers now expect the Increase of
salary attached to cities Of a population
Of more than loo, 600.
The Dcnrer Neirs pr"p'i"cj-~ that.
while Chicago and 81. i.nTIS are quarrel
ling as to which shall have the United
States mint, Denver vii! step la and
walk off with the prize.
The New Jersey Grand Army Of the
Republic will have a reunion ia Newark
July 81. All the posts of the State will
parade, and there will br a collation. and
oration ut the Industrial institute build
ing.
Six new indictments wrr" found ON
Monday against William NJ. Tweed,
Peter B Sweeny, Woodward and 9th
ers for obtaining money from the city
treasury Of New York, by false pretcnse.
Amount involved $50, 600.
\ decision in tine Ninth judicial dis
trict of North Carolina follows that of
the New York court Of appeals, holding
national banks subject to State usury
laws In Massachusetts and Ohio the
opposite rule prevails
The stories that mining was success
fully carried on at Ncwhury, Mas, 100
years ago, have been coIrnborated 10y
the discovery, in AN Old shaft, 10 feet
deep, of the rotten timbers of a coping,
ropes, and other relies, together with
some good specimens Of silver and lead.
Judge Hunt, of the United States su-
preme bench, has decided, in the ease OF
the United States vs.. George Hughes.
of New York, that testimony taken from
books and paper of the defendant seized
by the Government shall be submitted,
under the statute which authorizes the
use of evidence clicitcd ''frOm the party
rs n witness"
The will of the late Mrs. Esther Dick
inSon, of DcCrlield, Mass, will probably
be entered i'll probate at the July term
of the Greenfield court, and there is
prospect of quite a contest over its adj
mittance. She had made a will, some
time since, giving her property, valued
at $50, 600 or $50, 900, for founding a
school at DeerfieId; but, some three
months since, this will was materially
altered, and it is now proposed to con
test it OH the ground Of insanity.
A German Statistician who has collect
ed facts in relation to the production of
the precious metals, shows that the
United States has become the greatest
silver producing country of the world,
taking the precedence even OF Mexico,
which has hitherto been supposed to
yield nearly two-thirds of the worlds
supply. In 1878, the silver production
Of this country was estimated at So,
$50. 600, while that Of all other countries
II L..
amount mined in this country iaS been
constantly increasing.
A horrible story is told by The Enter
prise (lliSS. iStHT. IL srcIuS that small
poX has been rather prevalent, and rc-
Gently Il negro wnman, with !iy" children,
was attacked 10y tlie disease. As sOoHa
it became known that the woman Lad
small poX, the other negro families adj
iacent moved of. and left the miserable
woman to her fate. The negroes claim,
however, that they carried food near
the house and called to the children To
come out am get il. The woman lin
gcrcd four or five days in great agony
and finally died. NoOnr would attempt
to bury the remains for several days,
and on the night of the lth inst. the
children were called out, and fire was
set to tie housr, hugning up everything
iii it, body and al.
Three men employed ~ Smith e Wrs-
sons firearms manUfactory, at Spring
field, Mass, took it into their heads, last
week, to start for parts unknown, i'm
mcdiately after being paid off, leaving
their families to provide for Themselves
as best they could. They went from
there to New York, where one of them
became separated from the other two,
and returned with empty pockets and "A
penitent soul, but was unable to regain
his place ia the factory II Is under
stood that the others have no intention
OF returning, ami are s..4I by ;lIrir com
plnion to have intended to 90 to North
Carolina The men all had faInilirS and
were getting good wages, We're not ia
any trouble, and apparently forsook
then wigas and children in this shame
fHl manner mrfc!y FROM E r''sticSs i'm
uuIS,, and fl,.irt. tD keen uig.iilE