The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-07-28
NEWS ITEMS.

Gold is falling. Let soft money men
note the fact.
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Pratt has resigned.
The Orangemen enjoyed the 18th
as a holiday throughout the country.
The Republican quarrels in Florida
are likely to be settled by the with
drawl of Governor Sterns from the
canvass forGovernor. This will give the
Republicans an excellent prospect of
carrying the state for Hayes.
The Confederate Congress will not
succeed in getting the National election
law repealed. The Senate stood firm,
and the balIot-box suffers have about
! +concIued to hack down. That law was
passed in consequence of the election
frauds committed by Tilden and Tweed
Judge Tyner, the new postmaster
General, has the advantage of famil-
iarity with the work of the Depart
ment over which he has been called to
preside. He has been for some time
Second Assistant Postmaster General.
During the war hotel-keepere in
Davenport, Iowa, kicked a wounded
soldier out of his house because he
was selling Chicago TribuneS contain
ing an account of a Union victory.
The night he heard of Tilden's nomina
tion that man illuminated his hotel
from roof to Office.
At Newark, n. J. on the 18th three
young Germans, brothers, named Fie-
horn, known as desperate characters
for years, were arrested by police Off
GERS Dickerson and Elsden, for disord-
erIy conduct. AS the officers attempt
ed 10 march them off, the men drew
revolvers and shot Elsden dead and
fatally wounded Dickerson. Escap-
ing from the crowd the three desper-
does ran up the street to T. w Daw-
sons tannery, on River street, where
they formerly worked. There they
called for Mr.. Meyer, the formon who
had discharged them, but not finding
him they commenced an indiscrimin-
ate firing on the shop, which resulted
in killing John Alburs the assistant
foreman, and the wounding of two
workman. The employees of the shop
tnrned out en- masse, and chased the
murderers down, towards the river. In
the pursuit the workman used stones
and knives, striking the murderers sew
eral times before they reached the riv-
er. The latter jumped into the water
and attempted to escape across, but
were stoned to death by the outraged
workman. The wounded were taken
to st. Michels Hospital. One of them
named Fisher, is dead. Dickerson will
not recover, and the wounded are i'll
a perilous state, Alburs, Meyer, and
Elsden leave families.
The complete report of the debate
between Gen. Garfield and Sam Cox
on the question of retrenchment, as
given by the Congressional Record
shows Cox's defeat to have been more
perfect than the telegraph had shown.
After his usual display of fireworks
the little demagogue from New York
made a climax to his speach by ass
erting that the government, by extra ex-
penses had watonly wasted $50, 600, 600
a year since the close of the war. Gen.
Garfield arose and threw the response
sibity of the expenditures incurred
where it rightly belonged. He remin-
ded Mr Cox that the whole debt the
government was labOring under had
been incurred by the rebellion of that
portion of country with which he (Cox)
was now seeking to curry favor; and
that Mr.. Cox had opposed retrench
ment when the Republican party was
in power and there was no opportuni-
ty to manufacture political capital by
favoring it. Mr. Cox had used his
most beguiliDg elOquence to show that
the business of the government was to
erect a large postoffice building, etc. in
in the city of New York. Mr.. Garfield
next called the gentleman's attention
to the fact that during the last three
sessions there has been a reduction i'll
actual appropriations of more than
S25, 900, 600. And that this had been
done, too, under protest from the
Democratic side of the House. The
time for such cheap demagoguery as
this has passed. What will Samuel do
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