The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-10-26
NEWS ITEMS.

Cleveland wants an appropriation Of
$500, 600 for its Breakwater.
A number of counterfeiters have
been arrested at Toledo. There ap-
pears to have been a gang in that vi
cinity, which has been broken up by
the arrest made.
At Houston, T:Ias, a white man wes
fined 81 and costs for saying to pess-
ing mulatto girl that he world Ike to
kiss her.
At Rushville, Ind, Abraham Wide
ner, a married man aged thirty-three
years, stands charged with committing
rape upon Nancy J. Clark, aged four
teen. Widener is in jail awaiting trial
The Texas land swindle, which has
been csrried on to a great extent for
several years, seems to have had very
extensive ramifications, ss pai ties in
Kansas City, st Louis, Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, Cleveland and Pittsburg
are implicated, and are to be arrested.
Shapsburg Savings Bank, of Snaps
burg, Pa, has failed.
A citizens meeting at Springfield,
Mass, on the 18th, endorsed the action
of the President.
Ex Gov. Pinchback, of Louisiana,
has renewed his claim TO seat in the
United States Senate.
Michigan papers say that Secretary
Schurz can find abundant opportunity
for Furnishing lumber thieves in that
State, and that they are organizing for
more extensive depredating campaign
this winter than ever before.
The application of Spofford, of
Louisiana for seat in the Senate, YVES
referred to the committee of Privileges
and Elections.
Wendall Phillips will quit the lecture
field because of his advanced ege-si1-
ty years.
Joe Jefferson has returned from Eu-
rope and will commence an engage
ment in New York on the 29th.
Butler say she is not responsible for
anything, but has his shat full of brick
bats to throw at those who are, -
which is not very comforting refiec-
ton to various Congressman. He will
take his pay out of those fellows.
Mary s. Oliver VS. Simon Cameron,
a breech of promise case, comes up at
the November term of the U. s. District
Court at Washington. Also Thomes
Biggins VS. U. s. Grant for 100000
damages false imprisonment.
The liabilities of the Merchants
Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Chi
cago are S656. .52S. and its assets are
nominally $40, S37.77-not a very ad-
mirable showing.
Three men were arrested at SPRING
field. H., on a charge of stealing tick
cts from the Office of the o. & NJ. r. R.
at that place.
The new Lutheran organization in
Ada, Ohio, known by the name of st.
Marks, have eXterded call to Rev.
Frank P Cook, late of the Philadel-
phia Seminary.
The President has ordered pardon
issued to James White, of Cincinnati
undergoing sentence in the Ohio Peni.
tentiary for completely in the election
frauds in Cincinnati in 1876.
1t has been feared that a severe frost
in Florida, last winter, had so injured
the orange trees that they would no
bear well this fall. These fears have
proved groundless; there will be larg.
eI crop than ever before.
a drayman in Davenport, Iowa, who
has been a hard worker for twenty
years, owns eight good dwelling houses
and has 5000 in the bank. Another
drayman there, who was trusted for
his dray twenty-three years ago, retired
four years ago worth $50, 900.
A man with his legs almost petrified
died at New Haven, Connecticut, the
other day. He was seventy-one years
of age, and about nine years ago his
legs began to swell and harden until
at his death they measured thirtv-fiye
inches around the calf, and weighed
eighty pounds.
Some of the women voters of Chey-
enne, Wyoming, wanted the election
postponed a week or two because they
were busy canning fruit and making
jam, and couldn't leave their work.
-ED. Just like the dear, contrary
creatures. They always want to vote
when they can't, and never want to
when thev can.
The Labor vote, so far as this can