The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-17
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Navigation. in the Welland Canal il
closed.
The small pox is on the decline in Gin
cinnati.
The spelling school mania has reached
Australia.
Mr.. Cobb wa, re elected Mayor of Bos
ton last Tuesday.
The school fund Of Indiana amounts
to 50, 500, OOO
Cincinnati has slaughtered 239,374
hogs this season.
The Arkansas Legislature adjourned
on the 10th ins+.
Baltimore is bidding heavily for the
Western grain trade.
Nebraska City, Neb., was visited b!
an earthquake shock last week
E. S. Tobey has been appointed Post
master at Boston.
Sir Houston Stewart, Vice Admiral o
the British Navy. is dead.
William Delaney was hanged at Mi
nola, Long Island, on the 10th inst.
The Parliament of Great Britain vii
convene February Sth, 1876
The great $50, 900 race will take plac,
at San Francisco on Christmas day.
Four of the leading Congregations
Churches in Boston are vacant.
1t is thought that Tweed made his es
cape from New York in a steam yacht
Sixteen prisoners escaped from the
Henderson, KY, Jail last Sunday night
The Treasurer of Saratoga county, n
Y, has defaulted to the tune of S120, 600
Judge Taft has been appointed Trus
tee of the Cincinnati Southern Rail road
The Supreme Court of the United
States adjourns to-day until January Sd
President Grant has appointed George
Z. Emery, of Tennessee, Governor oI
Utah.
Senator Logan will not be able to take
his seat in Congress until after the holi.
days.
y J. Edmumds, Postmaster at Noble,
Illinois, has been arrested for robbing
the mails.
Last week the propeller Phil. Sheridan
was burned on Lake Erie. Loss, $50,
600.
Ex-senator Matt. Carpenter has sued
the Chicago Tribune and Journal for
libel.
Shipments OF copper from Colorado
mines during the past year aggregate
1000 tons.
Charles b. Peitengill has been con-
iirmed as Collector of the Eighteenth
Ohio District.
The Ohio Association of Short Horn
Cattle Breeders will meet at Columbus,
January 4th, 1876.
The President will send special mes
sage to Congress on Cuban affairs soon
after the holidays.
The Committees of the Lower House
OF Congress will not be announced until
the 29th inst.
tie, rye Fl. Sargent, a prominent busi-
hess man of Urbana, committed suicide
last Monday evening.
The steamer Sunnyside was sunk in
tlie Hudson River last week. Eleven
liyes were lost.
Hon. John @. Smith, of Ohio, has en-
tered upon his duties as Indian Com
missioner.
Colonel Bab;ock has given bail in the
sum of 5000 for his appearance in st.
Louis.
All the gambling honses in Cincinnati
Were closed by the police on the night
of the 9th inst.
Queen Victoria will send twenty pic
tureS belonging to the Royal Collection
to the Centennial Exposition.
The Prohibitionists will hold their
National Convention at Cleveland. O.,
May 9th, 1876
Fifty-seven thousand six hundred
pounds OF zinc eagles are to perch on the
main centennial building.
Dec snber 31st is the centennial ami
of Montgomery's unsuccessful
attack on Quebec.
The Government derived SO, 600, 600
'evenue from malt liquors during the
,ast year.
4 million of dollars was what the Gov
received for the Philadelphia
Navy Yard
\ crooked whiskey distiIlery has just
'een discovered near Pueblo, Colora 10.
{ was an underground affair
The Kentucky State Grange passed
last Friday favoring Govern
nent aid to the Texas Pacific railroad.
There We're ninety-eight sea-going YES
els loading and unloading at the Phila
lpliil docks last Saturday
Olof Steversan, Swedish Envoy TX
and Minister Plenipottmii
ry at Washington, is dead.
1t cost the State of Ohio S22, 00J 70
dvsrtise the proposed amendments TO
he constitution prior to the October
lection
There was boiler explosion in the
oldiers' Orphans Home at Xeuia, not
,ng since. Fortunately no one was in
lrei
The Chinese Government wants Chi |
ese students who are studying in this
our:try given the privilege of the West
'oiHt military school.
Tie Western Union telegraph opera
DIS have protested against the reduction |
wages recently decided upon by the
ompany. /
Commodore Vanderbilt has given al
ther S100,0g to the university that
ears his name at Nashville, Tenn. The |
ntire donation amounts to 500, 600
TO REDUCE POSTAGE.
4 bill was introduced in the Lower
louise OF Congress last Tuesday to re-
uce the ratio OF postage on domestic
lail matter of the iirst-class to one cent
er half ounce, or fraction thereof. This
i'll contemplates the English system of