The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-12-15
NEWS ITEMS.

The value of silver is rapidly advanc
ing. By the time the mints have sup
piled the wants of the country for small
change as a substitute for the fractional
currency, and are ready to set to work
on the larger denomination, it is not
improbable the coined silver dollar viii
approach par with gold.
Col. Olcott, the champion of crema
ton, who administered, by appointment
upon the remains of the Baron de Palm
has made arrangements with the gas
works by which bodies of deceased per
sons can be cremated at the moderate
cost of SLIGO each, yet he has lingering
telling that he can never thoroughly
popularize the custom until the expense
is brought down to an even dollar and
a half.
President Lerdo, of the Mexican Re-
public, does not enjoy peaceful polite
al life. A short time since his Chief JUS
tice, deciding that the late election had
not been legal, established Provisional
Government and was recognized by a
large number of the States and the
prominent men of the country. Now
the telegraphs reports that the revolu-
zionist Diaz has entered the capital and
driven Lerdo and his Cabinet toward the
Pacific coast. The people of the coun-
try can take their choice of the three
Presidents,
Whoever is shown on fair, open and
honest count to be elected President will
of course be installed, and no American
will be so idotic as to grumble When
Mr.. Lincoln was inaugurated, in 1861,
his foremost competitor, Stephen A.
Douglas. stood behind him and held Mr..
Lincoln's hat while he took the oath of
office. That is the true and American
way, and if either Mr.. Hayes or Mr..
Tilden is fairly and honestly shown to
have majority of the electoral vote, in
either case we advise his defeated COM
petitor to attend the Inauguration and
follow the example of Mr. Douglas
NeU York Herald.
The Republicans of Oregon carried
the State by majority equivalent to
over 5000 in the State of Ohio. Be-
cause Oregon has only one-thirtieth of
the population of this State, it is deemed
by the plotters a fit subject for theft.
Why they don't steal Ohio, where
the majority is proportionately but one
tenth of that recorded by Oregon?
The vote in Oregon was as follows:
Illden 1900 ..--.-.---..-----.-io io'OoS
Republican majority. ia
That was big majority in so small a
yote Yet Democratic Governor, with
less shame than a chicken thief would
exhibit, tried to squeeze vote for Tilden
out of thatState.
Two hundred men have been thrown
out of employment by the bursting of a
boiler in the wooden ware works, at
Detroit, Mich. on the 9TH. One man was
killed and two injured. The building
was injured to the extent of $4,000.
Jas. A. Moore & Bros. of Indianapolis,
have failed with liabilities amounting to
395 OO0-assets supposed to be $4,000
: f. E. Armstrong, of the Register and
W. r. Brownlee, of the Adte,tiser at
ChilIcothe had rencontre on the 7th.,
which grew out of scurilous publications
by Brownlee. Armstrong attempted to
shoot him on his refusal to retract, when
Brownlees friends seized and threw up
his ARM Afterwards they engaged in
and Armstrong was giving
Brownlee a deserved threshing, when
the latters friends interfered and saved
him. -.
The boom of the first cannon fired by
1 South CaroGnian in 1861 woke the
thulders. of the Union. The crack of
The first rifle fred by Wade Hampton's
egions in South Carolina will bring a
'wifter and sharper response. Woe 10
South Carolina ifa second rebellion be-
gins within her borders,
The population of Kentucky and Iowa
IRE nearly the same in number. In Ken
lucky one person IN every four is unable
o read, and Tilden's majority was 620S0i
In Iowa only one person in fifty is unable
70 read, and Hayes majority is 1929.
As the man said, after being run over
oy freight train, comment is unnecess
lry.
This is the way they Ahad fair count
n Democratic precinct in Columbia
county, Florida. Before the Examining
Board it was proven that Democratic
Inspector threw large number of. Re
publican votes on the floor and substi-
ute1 Democratic ballots therefor. Sew
raj illnesses swore positively to this
act. In another precinct five colored
aen we're taken by white armed Demo
rats to the swamp, a rope was placed
Iround the neck of one, and his wife was
threatened. All five were compelled to
wear that they would vote the Demo
,ratic ticket, and induce other colored
men odo 20. In pursuance of this oath,
hese colored mendid vote as they swore
o do, md. to save their lives, induced
,thers to do the same thing. .i.
The coinage of the product of the
American mines into subsidiary small
money has stopped the expectation of
liver bullion to London, and hence
here is an advance in the value Of silver.