The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-09-01
NEWS ITEMS.

Hon. F. D. Morgan, Of New York mas
been nominated for Governor by the
! Republicans Of thar State.
II the neighhorhooi of Wheeling
| West Virginia, = fearful storm prevailed
on the 2l.h. which washed away bridges
| and interrupted travel on the Wheeling
and Pittsburgh Railroad
The steamship CT Funch was burned
/ OF the Dutch coast. On the 18th. The
/ vessel and cargo were valued at s400GU0
Cargo fully and rcs>oi partially in
-ured.
Samuel CoyilI, clerk Of the Saut Ste
! Marie Canal for five Years. absconded
| last week. Near Port Huron he threw
! himself into the lake. taking with him
( a life preseFver. and II is supposed he
escaped. The exten; Of his defaIcations
! no; known.
/ James Murphy. aged 1G was hanged
/ a. Dayton. on the 18th. for the murder
! Of James Dawson The murder occur-
! red az wedding one wear AGO. The
rope broke a the first trial. but AT the
second the murderer neck was broken.
! and he was declared dead in nineteen
minutes.
! Inc coal combination IN the East has
been broken, and the Reading Railroad
company has declared It's purpose TO do
business independently hereafter.
| Speaker Kerrs funeral took place at
New Albany, Ind, on the 18th Amin
mense cOncCurse Of people attended. and
the ceremonies were imposing
Hon. VIM. \. Wheeler, Republican
candidate for Nice-President, made Il
stirring speech at st. Albans, Vt. on the
night Of the 9th
Gen. Logan opened the Campaign in
Illinois, on Saturday last, by Il scathing
review Of the Democracy and its leaders.
i l. said on good authority that in the
Western States, where the planting and
culture of trees have been on the in
| crease, there Is an evident improvement
III the fall of rain. II Is more regular
and more equally distributed.
Cincinnati Gdzette: 1t is bad for an
ardent refOrmer 10 steal a quarter of a
million from Western railroad, but to
swear TO a lie in order 10 escape the tax
upon it argues degree of meanness
that no one but sam Tilden could be
capable Cf.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is of the
opinion that the nomination of Cover
nor Morgan as the Republican candidate
for Governor of New York makes 1t
doubtful whether the Democrats can car
~ that State unless they make un-
eXpeciionally strong nominations to Of
set it.
The Sevcrians are defending their na-
tive soil with heroic resolution. They
thrice repulsed the Turks on Tuesday,
and Friday, when the attack was re-
newed, they forced the invaders to fall
back with heavy loss. Meanwhile Gen.
HOryatoyich Is marching toward Nissa
with the view of asSailing the Turks in
the rear. endangering their communica-
tons with the capital
OLary the pedestrian. whose recently
completed feat of walking 800 miles
within six days won him for moment
Nations hearty thanks, and the prom
iSe ola boquet, is now charged with be-
ing :; fraud. 1t is now claimed by false
measurement OF the track ULeary stroll
ed about 272 miles. The time e-keeper
also cOnfesseS that he kept time at the
rate of five miles an hour even while
OLcary the great was in bed The
charges are made by two attendents who
have not been paid. and denied by one of
the judges who probaely has been.
John Morrissey does not flourish his
political betting book quiet so freely as
he did. On being asked day or two
ago whether he was puttingup anything
Just now, he replied. We'll, I'll bet even
~, Ia Of Nnur oil IT,,
betting Just now"
At2 o'clock one morning last week
Mrs. Catherine Seiger, of Essex street,
Jersey City. was awakened by hearing
some one in her room. She seized a
chair, and i'll the dark struck the intruder
felhng him 10 the floor. His cries show
ed her that she had struck her son, aged
fifteen, who had got up and dressed HIM
selfin his sleep.
Gen. Tutles example Is having great
effect in Iowa. Henry Williamson
one Of the most influential Democrats,
in Douglass township, that State, is among
the many who have declared for
Hayes and Wheeler. He took active
part in a Republican meeting the other
day, and made a rOusing speech, giving
good. sound, logical reasons for forsaking
his old party.
The most powerful armored ship afioat
Is the Thuaderer, which met with such
IA terrible accident recently, but two gun
boats have been finished on the Tyne
which will be fitted up by the Armstrong
firm with hydraulic machinery working
Il thirty eight ton gun. Compared with
the ThUnderer. the gunbOatS, built for Il
foreign government, are diminutive, vet
each little vessel Will carry gun capa-
bic of PIERCING the thickest armor now
on the seas. The smallness of these ma
rine waspS will be their greastest protec-
ton. and the steam power viii be so ap-
piled that not only the gun, bat also the |
vessel, will be under the complete con-
irUl of the artillerist
Samuel J. Tilden's record as Il patriot
Is very tersely summed up in the fol- |
lowing manner. When the noted New |
York Seventh Regiment went TO the |
front in April, 1861, nearly all the veal |
thy men of New York City, without dis |
Iinction ofprty, contributed to the cause
Of their country, but Tilden did not give
a dollar. y few days afterward, the |
great Union Defense Fund, was estab-
lishen. Even Belmont contributed to |
raise the $7OO000O0 of this fund, but in
MI that long list of contributors, which
the poor working man and the
millionaire alike the name of Samuel J.
Tilden IS a0,rhc,s TO Be toUad He never
uttered a word of sympathy in behalf of |
his impcriled cOuntry-hc never con-
tributed a dime to any object con-
nected with the war to preserve the
Union, But he did utter words of SYM
pathy and encouragement i'll behalf of
those who were fighting to destroy the
did propose to strike
the flag. and basely surrender to the in
Solent demands of Treason and armed
Rebellion.