The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-10
NEWS ITEMS.

On Tuesday afternoon last the mid
die span of the Cincinnati, Georgetown,
and Portsmouth Narrow Guage rail
road bridge, over the Little Miami river.
some ten miles from Cincinnati, fell,
precipitatng fifteen laborers a distance
of As or so feet. Three were instantly
killed; another died soon after; two
others were fatally injured and eight
others more or less seriously injured.
It appears that General Grant was
advised by Minister Washburn not to
visit Paris at present. as it was feared
an effort might be made in some of the
demonstrations in his honor to treat
him other than as San illustrious cit
izen who has held the chief agistraey
glories.' In other words, there was a
fear that ex-President Grant would be
played Off against President Mac
Mahon.
The steamship Montana, which sailed
on Tuesday for Liverpool and took fifty
carpenters of New York and Brooklyn,
who had been engaged by the firm of
Neil & Son, contractors and builders,
of Manchester, England. The men we're
paid their fare over, and a reasonable
allowance is promised to assist
such as wished to take their fam
lilies. The terms are that they
shall be engaged for one year
certain, and receive six shIllings day.
The majority of the men were origin
ally from the old country, skilled art
tisans, can not find employment here
at living wages. One of them said 1T
is not so much the low wages which
drives us away, but the perpetual strife
and trouble between ourselves and en-
ployers."
1t is learned that the policy of the
Pennsylvania road will be to give the
GO by so far as possible and expedient
to all the communities which have sus-
tanned the rioters Altoona is one of
these places which has been built up
entirely by the fostering hand of the
company, and it has been among the
foremost in its attempts to iDjure the
company destroyits property The same
singular condition of public feeling
seems to have existed at various points
on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio,
such as Martinsburg, Cumberland,
Keyser and Grafton, whose business
prosperity is 50 much dependent upon
the unimpeded operations of the road,
and where the company has made such
large Investments of its capital.
A man died in Washington the other
days, who for a year had eaten scarcely
anything. He often passed from four
to ten day without eating an ounce OF
of food of any kind.
A tax on flour, like a tax on light,
reaches every man woman and child in
the country. That there is tax on
-four will be news to most people in
the East, and the dimension of it, as
stated elsewhere by ex Gov. Washburn
of Wiseonson, the largest miller in the
United States, will be news of an un
pleasant kind. Mr. Washburn charges
ring of patent svindlers" with hav-
ing secured the power. unless Congress
sweeps away their slyly obtained pat
ent, of leyying contribution on mill
ers equal in amount to q tax of dol
lar head for almost our whole popu-
lation. This looks like q serious mat
ter. and ex Gov. Washburn is quite
right in feeling deeply on this subject
~ Y. Tribune
Hibernia Light Guards of Consho-
hoeken Pa known as Company 10th
Regiment of the Pennsylvania militia,
has been commanded to disband, the
arms of its members siezed, and charge
of eowardice laid against them This
company deserted from tbe regiment
at Reading, Pa, at the time Of the riot
last week, and went to hotel while
the remainder of the regiment went on
to Norristown.