The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-10-13
NEWS ITEMS.

DIR A B Ingersoll, of Cleveland, was
found dead beside the track of the c c
C& r r, at Greenwich, on the morn
ing of the 5th. 1t is supposed he at
tempted to alight from an express train,
which did not siop there.
By the breaking of wheel of ten
der, on the Great Western Railroad, near
Princeton, Ont, train running thirty
| five miles an hour was thrown from the
track, on the night Of the 4th, and five
persons were killed.
Hon VIM Ealter, aged ninety-one
years, died at Portsmouth on the 9th.
As an evidence Of the hard times of
which Democratic papers are complain
ing, it may be noted that the capacity of
the American Print Works of Fall Riv-
er is going to be extended so as 10 ena-
bic the company to increase its produc-
ton of finished prints to 5000 pieces
day, instead of 1000 as at present
The Comptroller of the Currency has
declared dividend of 10 per cent. in
favor of the creditors of the First Nation
al Bank, of Mansfield, o, and dividend
of the same amount in favor of the cred
itors of the FIRST National Bank of An
defson. Ind This dividend makes q
total of 40 per cent. to the creditors of
the Mansfield bank, and % to those of
the Anderson bank.
Matthew A. Brown, at Chattanooga,
aged eighteen, died Friday evening,
from knife wound inflicted two weeks
ago by Andrew johnson, in a dispute
abouta young lady.
One of the French mail bags which
arrived at the New York Postoffice the
other day, by the steamship England,
had its contents, consisting of newspa-
persi samples of silk, ribbons, etc. badly
damaged by rats, which had knawed in
to the bags Most of the samples were
nearly destroyed, and in some cases the
address was rendered Eligible.
A law has recently been passed in It
, ally which does away with all the relig-
ious features of an oath. The practice of
ures with the words: Before God and
before man." and Il swear, calling God
to witness" was distastful to the great
number of atheists in Ital y, and both
Houses of the Italian Parliament have
passed the law above mentioned. By this
the witness now simply says "Iswear;"
the judge explains to him the nature of
an oath.
\ The employees of the Portland & Odens-
burg Railroad struck, Saturday night.
for their arrears ofpay, many having five
months pay due. The strike embraces
the engineers, conductors, station agents
brakeman, fireman, &c. They assert that
| if they are not paid Monday, not train
lshall go over the road
Elizr Drew Of Boston Highlands, who
swan from her row boah and rescued
child last August, has Just received by
mail handsome Maltese cross, with the
date on one side and TO the heroic
Young lady" on the other. She has nev-
learned who it was she saved.
A gear or so ago. after an election in
which the Democratic PARTY got hurt, the
Cincinnati Enquirer gave utterance to
the fervent wish, ITO see an election
without the interference of the Catholic
priests" The Enquirer was then in the
mood to join the american Alliance"
The feeling remains, although the En-
quirer is forced to restrain Its expires
sion. At heart the Enquirer is friendly
to the American Alliance, and would be
rejoiced to have it drive the Roman
Catholic Church out of politics; but the
subsection of its party to the Roman
priesthood constrain it to suppress its
feelings.
The agitation and general distrust
which would inevitably follow the accec-
sion of the ex-rebel leaders to the con-
troll of the National Government could not
be otherwise than depressing % all kinds
of industry and trade. The monetary
affairs, the vast structure Of credit, the
great investments of capital in skilled
manufacture, and the extensive produc-
tive industries of our country, require a
state of peace aud security for the future.
Disturbance and distrust made them
shrink. The victory of the South could
mot bring peace.