The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-06-01
NEWS ITEMS.

The Republic Life Insurance Com.
paDy, Of Chicago, has been placed IL
Ia the hands of Receiver.
The verdict OF the jury, in the Rock
ford Court House case, is to the effect
that the architect, Henry /. Gray, and
the Board OF Supervisit ms, are equal
Iy guilty Of causing the disaster.
Third termers do not receive much
favor al the hands of the administra
ton.
Tie Postofiice sc Coshocton. Ohio,
was entered by thieves on the night Of
the 22d, and burglarized. The safe
war blown open and $3.50 in money
and 800 in stamps stolen Suspicious
rests on ''tramps."
The facts brought out on the tria
of the Elenton rioters are Of a charac
fer to blanch the cheeks of every hon
est man for the men who are arraigneo
for tIial, And yet the defendants smile
al the testimony as though they had
committed praiseworthy deeds, in the
cold blooded murder of negroes.
Senator Lamar, it is said, faTors the
''hash it up" policy of Governor Stone,
in regard to the Mississippi assassina
/ tions.
New York Tribune: After Mr.. Bar
mum has discovered Charlie Ross he
vows he will dig out one Old Line
! Wing If It takes all summer.
The rolling mills at Youngstown, o..
caught fire from an exploded torch,
and was in ruins in two hours. Loss
estimated at 500, 900, with an insur-
ence of S4S2, 600.
Sunday morning last the picture
frame factory Of J. & A. j. Nurre, at
Cincinnati took fire and wes totally
destroyed. The loss reaches so, 600
with An insurance OF only S2n, coo.
The Murphy movement has been IA
vOrably introduced at Cincinnati. By
the bye, we see it stated that Gen 10.
Geiger is the most effective Murphy
speaker in the State.
A correspondent writes to ask why
newly married men are called Bene.
diets. The reason, we believe, is that
in entering on their new state of life
they are supposed to give up all the
bad bachelor habits to which they
have benedicted-!Sd Francisco Netcs
Letter.
The ex-President and ex-Cashier OF
the Farmers and Mechanics National
Bank of hartford, Conn, have plead
guilty in court of making false returns
and swearing to them, the bank being
nearly six hundred thousand dollars
out by their crooked transactions.
Twelve States will hold elections be
fore Congress meets, viz: Oregon, in
June; North Carolina and alabama,
in August; Arkansas, California, Yer
mon and Maine, in September; West
Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and
Connecticut, in October.
The President has issued An execu
tive order, reserving the Pagosa Hot
Springs and one square mile of land
surrounding them, in Colorado, as
permanently-public property. These
springs are considered valuable for
medicinal purposes, and the action is
taken with a view to prevent further
difficulties concerning them, such as
OoucCu lllc CtSc VI lllS
Arkansas Hot Springs.
The Auditor of Virginia has con.
tracted for 5000 liquor registers or
''bell puDch." The dial is to be of
porcelain, and will register 1000, 600
drinks. This large number is fixed so
as TO avoid the possibilsty of running
out the register during the time which
elapses between the visits of the In
spector. Each saloon keeper will be
required to pay rent for the use of the
bell punch, that so the State, while
retaining its ownership of the instru-
ment. will get back ell the money paid
for it.
Francis Murphy, the converted sal
DON keeper and Christian Temperance
lecturer, charges two hundred dollars
a lecture; at least that is the price he
asked the Titusville Temperance
Union, unless the T. 7. U. fibbed about
it, and forged a letter from Mr.. Muir
ply. That pays every way better
than whisky selling.-Cleceland Her.
aid.