The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-17
NEWS ITEMS.

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be vindicated without delay.
NEWS ITEMS.
The war vessels recently ordered to
Baltimore on account of the strike,
have been returned to Fortress Mon
roe,
Mem. from Society journal Miss
S - appeared to positive disadvan
tage because of cloudiness of complex
ion and-must we write it? -Pimples
spelling an otherwise beautiful counte-
nance" She should by all means pro
cure and use DR.. Bulls Blood Mix
ture. Rep
Two ruffians entered the chamber of
Elder Moses Eastwood, in The Shaker
village near Dayton, on the night of
the 7th. and brutally assaulted the ell
der The noise awakened other in
mates of the house. and the ruffians
fled before accomplishing their pur-
pose of robbery or murder.
VIM. Kemble supports the attack of
Gail Hamilton on Carl Schurz, and
gives the data for the charge that he
received $500 from the Pennsylvania
State Central Committee, at various
times for speech making.
During the troubles at Scranton, Pa. =,
the Mayors posse of peacemakers fired
into the mob, and four persons were
killed. An inQusss held on the re-
mains found a verdict of wilful muir
der, and an attempt was made to arrest
the persons composing the posse, when
the troops under Gen. Heidenkoper
interDosed and prevented the arrest.
In Ohio, the militia companies have
been returned to their homes.
The strike of the silk weavers at
Patterson, New Jersey, is ended.
Navy officers are suffering heavy loss
in having their claims for pay discoun-
ted This is one of the evils directly
traceable to the failure of Democratic
Hou-e to make sufficient appropria-
tions.
Another call for $40, 900, 900 bonds
of 1865 ior redemption is to be issued
in few days.
Heavy losses to merchants who have
invested largely in sugar, seem inevi-
table, az the stock of that article now
held in this city is said to be the larg-
est ever accumulated here. One of
the most prominent reasons for a de-
cline in the price of sugar is that peo
pie are generally practising economy
in the use of confectionery, sweet
meats. and other Simular luXuries.
" Y. Tribune.
Gen. n. P. Banks has been made
what the English call correspondent
in a divorce suit which John o.
Thompson, well-known newspaper
correspondent, has brought. Thomp-I
son alleges that his wife has been
criminally intimate with a number of
men, among whom is the General.
Pittsburg Commercial: Hurrah
We have got one in on Ohio at last
Judge VIM. II. West, the Republican
candidate for Governor, was born
February 9, 1924, in Washington coun-
ty, Pennsylvania.
Growers escape was evidently a
pretty narrow one. A correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette who attend
ed the entire investigation, comes to
the conclusion that there was money
used in Growers election, but it was
not found that he had hand in using
it. He says the popular feeling in
Oregon is that the case has bad look.
That is about the state of popular
feeling on the subject everywhere.
All questions as to the success of
Capt. Eads's jetties at South Pass is
removed by the favorable report of
engineer officer inspecting the work.
There are now twenty feet of water
on the bal, with ample width of
channel, and q small ''mud lamp" re-
mains to be dredged across to make
the least depth twenty-five feet. The |
mouth of the Mississippi is open at |
last, and genius and enterprise have !
accomplished in less than three years |
time a work that had baffled the |
method of the army engineers for
more than half century.
We will do anything for Hayes ex-
cept support the Republican party"
said Virginia Democrat to cores
pondent of The Cincinnati CONNER
cial, the other day, and the remark
undoubtedly is fair representation of
the prevalent Southern sentiment
The same authority added that if any
Republican hostility to the Presid snt
should appear in the next session of
of Congress, the South would rally
to Mr. Hayes support. As for 1880,
ne had no fear of a break in the
Solid South. When asked what ac
ton the Southern Democracy would
take at that time, he replied: ''Swal-
low the National Democratic candi-
date, teeth and toe-nails. We are
part of the iSolid South, and there's
where you will find us. Old Virginia
will never go back On the Democrat
ic party. They have done too much
for Us. l mean they've tried to. The
Northern Democracy have been our
friends before the war, and since.
We will not desert them now, Just at a
time when we can be of most service.
New York. Indiana and the Sonth will
elect the next President"
One feature of the Ohio Republican
platform has escaped general discus
sion-the resolution against the extern
sion of patents. There is certainly a
need Of some reform in this direction.
The intent or the present law is that
should only be granted in
gases where, after reasonable efforts to
valuable patent, the own
er, from want of means or other good
cause, has failed to realize a fair re-
It's practical operation
Is, however, to benefit the rich rather
than the poor, for people who have
made money out of patents are usually
the ones that hire attorneys and lob
byists, and bring a pressure to bear
upon the Interior Department or Con-
yress to obtain extensions. The poor
pateDtee caLnot afford the expense
and the risk of failnre, and no matter
now meFitqous his case may be, his |
patent expires, 1t seldom happens
hat a valuable patent which has en-
-iched its owners is allowed to die
without an effort to prolong its exist &
,nce, and such efforts are too often
successful. Perhaps it would be 60 8
ng to far to prohibit all extensions,
put it may be that the evils of the
present system can be got rid of in no
,ther way.