The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-11-10

: OtlS NiCiUlnS c OuSIleIS 10 lIle acre, ana
, with stalks eight feet high; rye, 81 bush
els to the acre; wheat, 80 bushels, and
spring wheat, so to 100 bushels to the
acre.
Commerce has had another great OBJ
! stacle removed from Its pathway The
historical old town of Amsterdam. after
many years Of struggling to gain freer
access TO the ocean, has at last completed
canal from the sea to her doors, and by
J this great enterprise, second only in i'm
lportance to the Suez Canal, the thriving
Dutch expect to become the largest dis
tributers of the products of Northern
Europe.
Eight and one half millions of people
have visited the Philadelphia Exposition.
Weedin, Goodwin, and Collyer, found
guilty of manslaughter, at Salem, Y. j.,
by aiding in the killing of the prize
tighter, Walker, have been sentenced to
SIX years imprisonment, each, in the
Trenton penitentiary. The remaining
|, two prisoners, Clark and Neary, were
sentenced to an imprisonment of two
years.
Myron Emory, lad of II, was seized
| IANeA iio ltllCC uldShCu j,
bound, gagged, and dragged two miles
to Silver Lake and thrown in. The men
fled. Emory managed to free himself
and get ashore, where he was found
completely exhausted and insensible
The perpetrators have not been dis
covered, and no cause for the act can be
assigned.
Mary Gibson, alias Mary Hawson, was
arrested at Philadelphia, on a curious
charge Of swindling Samuel W. Garri-
son. She obtained from him the sum of
S1,4O929, by representing that relative
N Germany had left her bequest of
100000, which she had deposited for
safe keeping in the hands of Cardinal
McClosky. She was sent 10 Jersey City
for trial.
By the last official report of the Hart
ford insurance companies it was shown
that 212,4G7 people have their lives in
sured in that city. These lives are in
sured for 100000 altogether, and the
property insured in the fire companies
IS S645 GAG 900 more, so that the total risk
which Hartford carries is in round num-
bers 81 S1,1O0O00OOO.
| The manufacturers of arms in this
country are reaping a harvest. Turkey
Is buying very largely of arms and car
tridges, Egypt, Spain and Mexico are
sending in heavy orders, and the South
American Republics are doing the same
The copper mines feel the influence of
this in the increased demand for copper
for cartridges. The Lake Superior met
al is preferred for this use, and the larger
part of that sold this year has been for
that purpose.
\ Times dispatch from Rome SAYS
Cardinal Antonelli was transacting bust
ness with the Pope on Sunday last, when
he was seized with a severe attack of
gout IN the chest. He was Immediately
carried to his apartments. He refused
to believe that death was approaching
At last he consented to receive the sac
rament, but was unable to swallow. He
expired at 7:15 Monday morning, short
iy after sending message to the Pope,
asking for his blessing and imploring
pardon for all the faults he might have
committed during his administration
The fortune left by the cardinal will be
divided among the members of his
family. His fine collection of gems,
antiquities, works of art, ETC., are be-
queathed to the Vatican museum.
George Lingard, the well known actor,
died in New York October 90 He made
his debut i'll his thirty-fifth year, at the
New Bowery Theater, when it was
opened by his brother, James W. Lin
gard in 1859 He was good stock per-
former, had a fine voice and figure, was
versatile, and was very popular at the
time that his brother and G. L. Fox were
-elgnlng stars in the Bowery theaters
The tragic death of his brother greatly
affected him, and had a permanently de-
pressing influence ON his spirits. When
he new bowery Theater was DESTROYED
oy fire he appeared at the Theater
Comique, and has since played in most
of the principal cities of the United
States.
China has its big trees as well as Cali
forn;a. About 80 miles from Nikko, an
avenue of sugi, or cedar trees, begins,
and, with an occasional break where
there is village, it reaches the whole |
distance to the shrine of Lycyas-the |
longest avenue of shade in the world. |
These great trees are from five to seven
feet in diameter at the base, and tower
without a branch for 90 OF so feet, and |
then lift their heads 40 or 80 feet higher. |
They resemble the giants of the Yose-
mide. The trunks are flultlessly straight |
and the bark is deeply lined There are
about 10000 trees on this avenue, and all |
of them were planted after the founda- |
ton of the shrine, about $50 years ago.
Twelve years ago Frenchman opened |
a lemonade stand at Sens and made |
money After while it occurred to
him that the presence of a pretty woman
behind the counter would stimulate
trade. so he married Nile Bertha. Bust
ness was very good for time, but in
compatibility of temper soon developed
itself There was a quarrel one brighS
morning and the proprietor disappeared
with the cash box. On the next day a
fisherman found mans clothes and an
empty bottle ON the banks of the Yonne,
and also a letter to Bertha declaring that
her husband was weary of life Ten
long years she waited and mourned. and
then she married a tradesman of the
faubourg st. Denis. About three weeks
ago her first husband entered the shop.
Promptly she shrieked; the second hus-
band rushed in and soon the rivals were
pulling out each others hair.
About 80 years ago a handsome planter |
arrived in New Orleans from Martin
que, accompanied by his wife, creole,
n the full bloom of youthful beauty.
They settled in magnificent house mar
Lake Pontchartrain; three children we're
born to them; the husband was success
,ul in business; the wife was an attract
We hostess; their life was garnished with
One night a gambler met the
ady at a bal nlasqle, and she fell in love
With him. Secret interviews followed,
md finally she abandoned her luxurious
lome and fled to Cuba with her seducer.
The husband followed them, but was
lnable to hunt them down. After his
eturn to New Orleans his children were
tricken down by a Southern plague.
nd he was reduced to beggary. The
of time had crazed this helpless
oul. He was taken to n madhouse. !
where he remained for % years, and
inally, when former friends had forgot
en- him, and he was no longer an object
f interest to the outside world, he was
eleased, helpless and penniless, to die as
hance befell him. In his wanderings
e reached Baltimore, Oct 81, carrying
nth him. as link connecting him with f
appier days, the New Orleans and Mo- ,
lie papers which told the story of his {
-ife's desertion, the subsequent death of 9
is children, and of his confinement in {