The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-05-11
NEWS ITEMS.

CINCINNATI was last week the theatre
of double suicide, OF murder and sui
eide Mrs Sallie Dill and her daugh-
ger Nay Dill being the subjects They
/ had ben members of the Shaker Com
muDity at the Whitewater Settlement
near Harrison, Ohio, but the 6augh-
ter becoming diseontented insisted
upon going TO some city TO live If she
had TO so alone. They went together,
and secured a place in the family of
a AR Brickley, of Cincinnati. Both
b. came dissatisfied. the daughter par
tieulariy, who did not like to work,
aud at ore time they had determined
TO return to the Shakers; but the
daughter changing her mind, the
mother became much more distressed
in mind. They left the Brickley's on
t; 9th, and went to the Farmers
| Hotel. where they staid Tuesday night,
and in tEe morning tte daughter was
/ foupd dead and the mother dying, ev-
! iden;ly from poisoning with Morphia,
a. a bottle labelled Morphia was
found upon a table in the room. It is
rhoGght the mother gave the daughter
dose and then took a dose herself.
| An investigation was had by the Cor
| ouer, but the affair was surrounded
by an air of mystery which the inves-
tigation could not penetrate.
An old colored man named Green
berry, rag picker, was killed at Gin
cinnati on the 25th by colored rough
named John Moore. They had quar-
relied and come to blows, when the
young man drew knife and plunged
it into the heart of the old man. Moore
was arrested.
Ex-SherIff O'Brien, of New York,
cleared $4,000 during the recent
furry in breadstuffs.
A company has been formed in Cal
ifornia to export meat and fruit from
the far West to England. Land has
been purchased at Reno and Winnie
mucca on which to build improved re-
frigerator slaughter houses, and vast
herds can be procured from Nevada
and Utah. Stock TaiseTs ia the San
Joaquin Valley are willing to contrib
ute more sheep than the company can
reasonably expect to ship within the
year, and one man writes that he has
not sold a wether for three years, and
has plenty of sheep but no money.
The first slaughter house for sheep will
be built at Merced.
Gov Nichols, of Louisiana, has ap-
pointed the 10th day of May as a day
of Thanksgiving.
Last Sunday morning, and old lady,
the mother OF Judge Frand, of the
Probate Court of Dayton, was burned
to death while attempting TO light Il
fire with coal oil. She was alone in the
house at the time, and when the acci-
dent was discovered was already dead,
burned in a most horrible manner, u
portion of her body being eripsed.
Las Thursday Thomas Atkinson
and William Sinnison, living on ad-
joining farms near st. Henry, Mercer
county, Ohio, got into an alteration,
when the latter shot and killed Atkin-
son. Atkinson lived only few mo-
inents after bing shot. He leaves a
large family.
Large sales of horses for the French
light cavalry service have been made
within the past week.
Rush r. Sloane was arrested at
Springfield, Ohio, on Friday, of last
week, while en route from Cincinnati
TO Sandusky in a civil suitfOr $500, 600
damages brought by the Cincinnati,
Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad Com.
pany against himself, Thomas Ii.
Sloane and James ID. Lsa. The ca g
will be heard in the Clarke County
Common fiees Court, in May.
1t is getting fashionable to charge
every Republican who IS not friendly
to the administration policy with being
prompted thereto by personal grief,
the failure of the President 20 give
him or some friend federal position.
The Chicago tribune has much to say
of Blaine's personal grief, when there
is no evidence that Blaine has a per-
soual grief or has ,easion to find per-
sonal fault withzthe President. We
do not believe Blaine capable o. being
actuated by so low a motive. He has
been before the people for sixteen
years, and his whole career is that of
an honorable and patriotic statesmen.
IL is assumed by his enemies that he is
prepared to present resolutions in the
) nate assaulting Hayes, and that he
will urge the passage of a bill permit
ting Tilden or any of Tilden's friends
70 test the Legality of Hayes title be-
fore a high joint commission, compos-
ed of the chief Justices of the thirty
eight States, proposition so absurd
that no mon of sense would entertain
it for a moment. Blaine is a man of
seLse. and it is simply preposterous to
charge ANY such intentions upon him.
Mr. Hayes has as legal title to the
as an act of Congress can
give him. Whether he received the
honest majority in the disputed States
will never be known. Nor is it now
necessary that it should be. He is
firmly seated in the White house, and
there he will remain for four years,
Death willing. Mr.. Blaine has no per-
sonal grief that will lead him TO ques-
ton Hayes right to the Office given
him by the Commission by the auth
ority of Congress, and he will BE- pre-
pared TO cooperate with the President
whenever he thinks it right. Sen
fusky Register.
The Turks claim the first victory,
at Ba'ou"n, in Asiatic Turkey, and
that the Russians lOst SEQ men. IL mag
be the report 'lies like Turk"
The London Times regards tie ye-
cent utterances of Gen. Won MoEke,
rs indicating periious future Thinks
he realizes how eLsy il would he 20 in
voIve all Europe in war, and advises
for the worst while hoping
the best Won MoItke has since assur-
ed the world of his pacific intentions,
and of course the ''Thunderer" felis
easier.
Spain is to send an iron clad into the
Levant.
Mr. Il. II. Stem has been appointed
Assistant Treasurer at Cincinnati, vice
Davis, deceased.