The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-07-13
NEWS ITEMS.

Confederate Colonel ID. G. Potts,
Democrat, has been appointed Post
master of Petersburg, Va There were
five Republican applicants, one a
Union Soldier, but the gray is above
the blue in Washington.
A vigilance committee made things
4 lively for the citizens of Mitchell, Ind. -,
on Thursday night. Since 1860 there
have been eleven men hanged by mobs
in that portion of the State, and many
whipped and exiled. 1t does not aD-
pear, however, that the morals of the
people have been materially improved.
About IL o'clock Saturday morning,
during light thunder storm, Frank
Hawn, accompanied by a boy named
William Kelly, drove team of horses
under a large tree near Youngstown,
o., for shelter. The tree wat struck
by lightning, killing Hawn, Kelly and
the team.
There is growing republican opin-
ion that it would be good deal better
to lose Ohio than to surrender to the
silver imitation movement The senti-
ment expressed is that the party can
afford defeat on account of such devo-
ton to its principles, but cannot afford
even a victory through the abandon
ment of them.-N. Y. tribune, (Rep.)
Grace Greenwood says Morton's let
ter ISIS a cool, calm, and almost a sui
len acknowledgment of utter power
lessness of the moral as well as polite
al surrender"
The Burlington Ha,0keye, (Republi-
CAM consoles itself over the prospect
of Democratic victory in Ohio this
fall by the fact that it will elfeetually
squelch Stanley Matthews-''thep polit-
ical traf1cer destitute OF principles.
Cincinnati has had two white whales,
and both of them are now numbered
among the things that were.
w. p. Johnston, of Washington, ID.
c., has been appointed receiver Ofthe
National Bank of the State of Mis-
souri,
WIN. F. Brewer, of Zaleski, o., at
tempted to murder his sister with
pair of shears, on the Goth, and now
lies i'll jai! in consequence
The Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern Road has enforced a reduction of
ten per cent. in the wages of employ
ees. Western railroads are following
its example.
Saturday and Sunday heavy storms
visited st. Johns, the place of the re-
cent disastrous fire. Hundreds of
families who had been living in tents
since the fire, were thoroughly drench-
ed, and much suffering is anticipated.
A potato bug found its way into a
butchers garden at Cologne, Germany,
and the inhuman authorities ordered
kerosene to be poured over the potato
vines and then the vines were set fiTe
to. the government renumerating the
butcher for his crop. They don't
stand on trifies over there.
A party of masked lynehers in Ar
kansas undertook to shoot a colored
man arrested on suspicion of having
committed a murder four years ago,
but shot prominent white citizen In
stead. Discovering their error they
proceeded to kill the negro and left the
white inar. to recover at his leisure.
The Russians admit severe repulse
by the Turkish centre at Zewin on the
25th. They were defeated also at
Delibaba on the 21st. The Turks
claim a victory also over the Russian
extreme right at Batoum- Taking the
news from all sources it is evident the
Russians have been repulsed along the
whole line of attack.
A mob of one hundred ehiyalrous
Kentuckians attacked a desperate
named James BethurInan on Saturday
night last, but he escaped from them
killing one man in the encounter.
They then went to the Mt. vernon
Jail, took out four prisoners and nung
them. They were determined to nave
some fun anyhow.