The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-01-12
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len prisoners escaped from the Cuv-
anoga conn'y Jail on Saturday night
making thirty-tive that have escaped
during he present Sh riffs term. He is
boss sheriff to keep prisoners.
The electoral vote will be counted ON
ot valentines day. Hayes viii be the
national valentine.
Wonder if Mr. Tilden is selling any
$50 New York State cannon for s175
each to the Indiana bull dozers?
Ihe troubles of he country spring
i'om uneasy politicians; Its safety lies
IN the tranquil masses. .-Thonaas II.
Benton.
Speaker Randall has evidently given
up the resurrection of that Odd Joint
kule. | was tyo great a job for one
man.
Even Wade Hampton is compelled to
acknowledge that he has just as much
confidence in Governor Hayes as he has
in Tilden.
Il re canvass of the Presidential vote
in Florida has lost its popularity with
the Democrats. II is found by exper-
fence that every time the vote is count
ed the Republican majority nouns a
peg higher
Nelson's paroquet has just died at The
Jardin des Plantes at the ripe age of 115
years. He was with the great Admiral
az Trafalgar. and afer the battle was
never able to say anything but "bomb
bomb, bomb"
y wolf which had devastated the
counties ofIrwin and Coffee, in Georgia
having in two yearssdes:royed over five
hundred sheep, was lately killed by
Jacob Fennell, a farmer living in the
former county. For his service he will
receive a reward of 500 from The State
The evidence of Mr. Odell, one of The
Oregon Presidential electors, shows Just
how Cronin's little game was rlayed. As
nobody now, except perhaps Mr. Cronin.
considers that his performance had any
thing to do with deciding the election,
the story of it is chiefly of value as Il
laughable episode, and politicians of
bo'h sides can read it from that point of
view without being thrilled by its impor-
lance.
An intelligent colord voter of Florida
recently, in conversing with Northern
visitor upon the negro vote in the Safe.
said: Il did mean to vo:e for the Repub
can President and the Democratic Gov
ernor, because l knew and liked him.
But | just voted the straight Republican
ticket. Tell you, sir, the Republican
party changed me from property to a rOter,
and L amt agOing back on 1t noae." This
expressed about what the colored voters
of all the Southern States feel.
From large cities come tales of s~f |
fering by the worthy poor, to make the |
heart sick. A woman was recently dis /
covered sitting on the sidewalk, in New
York, front of the house from which her
drunken husband had driven her. In
her arms was her infant child, frozen
stiff The woman had begged succor
from the passers by in vain. In Balti-
more a policeman discovered whole
family stricken with scarlet fever, and
three children had starved from starva-
ton. There was no food in the house,
and all the available furniture had been
pawned years before. The wife was
abed, unconscious, and the husband had
stretched himself on the floor to die
Mr.. Elias Colbert. the astronomer of
the Chicago Tribune, has been invesii
eating the recent meteor He thinks
ts path while visible was from some
point southwest by west of Lawrence,
Kansas, to Miami county on the east {
srn borders of that State; across Mis- 1
souri,, from Cass to Marion counties; {
across Illinois from Adams to Iroquois {