The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-12-01
NEWS ITEMS.

/ lie MIN WHO Is llOllcStlN clCCicu Will Dc
President. and nobody else will. Think
of that and keep cool.
The importance of one vote is seen in
the case of Pacheco, the Republican
candidate for Congress in California,
who squeezes in by one majority.
They had an effective way of keeping
down the Republican vote in North
Carolina. 4 Supervisor of Elections
was on his way TO his county with Re
publican tickets in his possession. He
was quietly drowned and the tickets
stolen, so that there were no Republican
tickets to vote.
Whilst the Democrats are consoli II
themselves with the hope that something
to their advantage may come of the fact
that Sollace, one of the Vermont Repub-
| lican Electors, was Postmaster when
voted for, trouble has come to them in
Connecticut in the discovery that Gov
ernor Ingersoll, one of the Democratic
Electors in that State, was United States
Commissioner when voted for. What
is sauce for Vermont goose is sauce for
the Connecticut gander.
Australia has the railroad fever. In
South Australia the new Government
proposes to build seven lines of railway
of about 400 hundred miles in length, at
a cost of 100000. In New Zealand
authority is asked 10. borrow $6.2joO00I
for the purpose of railway construction
In Victoria the intention of the Govern
ment to introduce a railway construc-
ton bill has flooded Melbourne with
delegations, all pressing the paramount
claims of the particular sections of coun-
try to be considered in the new scheme
The law of Florida provides that the
Board Of Canvassers must not begin to
count the returns until the expiration
of Il certain time, unless all the returns
have previously been received. The
law of New York has similar provision
The Florida Board decided to obey the
law, and refused to count the returns
until they were all in. The Democrats
thereupon applied to the courts for an
order 10 compel them to begin with what
returns had ALREADY been received. In
New York the Democratic Board of
Canvassers met according to law, and
finding all the returns not in. refused to
proceed until the last return had been
received, or until the moment of the last
day expired And not single whisper
was heard of an appeal to the courts TO
compel the Board to proceed with its
task. Why this difference.
The Statue which the Jews of this
country are about to erect to religious
liberty, has arrived at New York. 1t
will be placed in position at Philadelphia
or Washington.-most likely at Phila-
dephia.
Thomas J. Ellis. the absconding teller
of the Park National Bank. has been
tracked TO ST. John, " B. The bank is |
minus 100000.
Joseph J. Davis, has sued The Hooking |
Valley Railroad Company for $4,000 |
damages. He was an employee, and by |
an accident had both legs crushed so
they had to be amputatcd.
The White wings ofpeace appear TO
be spreading over the troubled Fast; 1t |
may, however not be for long.
John Thompson's great jamboree at
Columbus, was an asSemblage of about
500 persons mostly residents of Colum-
bus. The warlike resolutions anticipat-
ed were rather wild.
The warlike condition of Eastern
affairs is having an effect upon the grain
trade which will be appreciated by those
having any to sell.
H l. Keller had her right leg broken,
the bone being badly shattered, and her
left arm and foot bruised. Mrs John
Cress and Mrs David Wells we've severe
" injured about the chest and body. Mrs
Cora Maines had her knee and ankle
sprined, and others were painfully
buised. Mrs Cress may not survive.
The pardon of Avery is an insult TO
the Country.
The locomotive engineers on the
Cairo & st Louis Narrow Gague road, on
evening last struck, and every
man left his engine 1t isa bad move,
and will not benefit the strikers.
At the Specimens tournament at
Memphis, on Thursday of last week. Capt !
Boeardus accomplished the remarkable
teat of killing twenty-siX out of thirty !
louble birds, at twenty-one yard rise, 7,
m two minutes and fifteen seconde :
lhe OllO q mississippi Ia H AIsiS pttoS @
ID into the hands of Receivers-The
Receivers are Daniel Terrence and
John King jr.
Two colored men named Newman
md Duncan, both intoxicated, we're
irving home in a wagon, near Mutual,
county, on the night OF the
9th. The horse was blind and the
lriver blind drunk. II is not to be
at that horse wagon an con-
ents were upset into a deep ditch.
Newman was killed, but Duncan was
mhurt. He was so drunk that he knew
nothing about the accident until some
ime afterwards
A Washington dispatch explains the
ctiyity in the Brooklyn navy-yard
,oted Friday by the fact that orders had
zen issued to hasten the completion of
be new frigate Trenton, so that she viii
,e ready for sea by March. Five hun
lred men are now employed on her.
During an Episcopal Church enter
ainment at Hills Hall, Perryville, Mad
son county, New York, on Friday even
ng, the north bent of the floor gave way,
over fifty ladies and chill