The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-12-27
NEWS ITEMS.

All those suffering from Hoarseness
Cold, or Cough, should try DR.. Bulrs
Cough Syrup. Ii cures.
A report comes from Galata of the
siRking of steamer on the way
from Marseilles TO Constantinople, aud
the loss of $50 lives.
Garfield is fully 10 accord with Blaine
in regard o investigation.
There are 225 pupils enrolled in the
Blind Asylum at Columbus.
Jonotban Grant will not hire any
more tramps. Helives near Grove city
and on the 18th tried the experiment
On the 18th be butchered.his bogs, on
the 18th ne marketed them for 800.
which vanished with the tramps the
the same night. Hire not the tramp
lest ye be trampled upon.
Ben Bonville, a two year man from
Scioto county. and George Williams, a
five year man from Columbiana county.
escaped from the penitentiary on the
morning of the 18th, by scaling the wall
during the prevalence of heavy fog.
The Census Committee is perfectipg
a bill to govern the taking of the cen
sus in 1880.
Kehoe, the King of the Mollie Ma
guires, was hapged at Pottsville Pa. =,
on the 18th. He died as it is expressed
game"
Altenbaugh, the Toledo wife mur
der, was found guilty of fmanslaughter,
on the 18th.
At Elyria. at noon, on the 18th, a
burglar was discovered attempting to
force open the ticket case AID money
drawer in the depot. He gave up like
Capt. ScottIs coon, and scame down"
when required.
Evansville has a body snathing hor-
ror resembling. in some respects, the
Harrison sensation in Cincinnati last
spring.
Gen. Williams, of Detroit, member
of Congress, was lying at the point OF
death, on Thursday evening, at Wash
ington.
Justin E. Colburn, Consul General
to Mexico, died on the I'd inst, OF
quick consumption.
Chalmers of Mississippi, has prepar
ed bitter speech against Blaine. He
will be like the fellow who looked like
lion when he went into the fight,
but much like an ass when he came
out. Blaine will like no better amuse
ment than such an assault will furnish
him.
The Postoffioe Committee mas agreed
to the publishers bill classifying mail
matter. 1t retains the uniform rate OF
two cents a pound for news papers.
magazines, and serial. 1t includes in
this rate sample copies, and allows in
closure of bills receipts, orders for
publication. Transient printed mat
ter and books are rate at one cent for
each two ounces, and merchandise is
fixed at one cent per ounce, both these
being the same as existing rates. Ad
vertising sheets are not admitted to
registry as newspapers and periodicals
are. The law in regard te packages
weighing over four pounds, is changed
so as to allow single vo umes of great
er weight than this limit to 90 in the
mali. Heretofore printed articles and
articles of glass, such as microscopes,
nave been shut out of the mails
Under the new bill they can be carried
If SO secured as not to ipjure the mail
bags. LIE ter press copies, and mani
fold copies from the type writer, are
allowed to go as transient printed
matter.
The long talked of ship canal be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific, via.
Lake Nicaragua is about to be accom-.
plished. it is said, company having
obtained the necessary concession
from the Nicaraguan government.
The Secretary of the Treasury, is to
issue q circular January 1st. calling
attention to the per cents. and offer
ing conveniencas to takers. These
bonds are in sums as low as $50, and
bear interest payable quarterly, and
will be exchanged for United States
notes. The national hanks are offered
inducements to place these bonds, and
they will be sent to subscribers at the
expence of the Treasury. At last we
are 20 have an effort at a popular
loan.
At St. L ,uis on the 18th, Wash Ives
a colored porter in the Franklin House,
shot and killed his wife and then shot
himself, dying instantly.
The two Russian cruisers built In
this country, sailed under American
masters on Saturday, for Cronstadt.
When out of American waters they
were delivered to Russian officers.
Senator Blaine's committee of inves
tigatiou is at work.
Great Irregularities in sugar impor
tations have been discover. Impor
ters custom officers are said to be in
volved.
Walter s. Storms passed through
Detroit on the 18th, taking the Grand
Trunk for Kingston, Ont. He had
$500 in his possession. On the train
he met a man named G. G, Cradle,
=hom be knew bat whom he suspected
of evil intentions. Near Ridgeway,
Storms went upon the platform of the
car, and while standing with his back
to the door, was attacked by CRADLE,
who cut his throat seize his pocket
book from bis POCKET and knocked him
of the train. His situation is regard
ed as critical.
At Athens, on Friday. last, joseph
Kavanagh was arrested for the mur-
DER of his WIFE,. There was evidence
that she had been choked to death,
and Kavanagh is suspected of doing
the choking. Mrs. K. was enciente.
A Mrs. Moorhouse, of Springfield, was
found lying at the foot of her CT liar
stairs on the evening of the 18th, with
fractured skull, under circumstances
indicating foul play.
Nose Ford, a colored man living in
Nansemon county. Va, was sentenced
by the Court to receive thirty nine lash-
rs on the bare back, for stealing $40
worth of property. The punishment
was inflicted and the negro was so
mortified and chagrined that he
blew his brains out. He placed the
muzzle of the gun to bis forehead and
pulled the uigger with his foot.
In 1867. Gen. Sheridan, by military
order elected James E. Wbalen from
Keltoua plantation, in Louisiana.
Whalen brought suit in the q. s.
Court at New York, to recover $500,
600 damages. The case was decided
last week in Sheridans favor, and
Whalen has asked for new trial.
The directors of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad Company
have declared dividend of three per
cent payable FEBRUARY LIST, 1879.
The Michigan Central Railroad has
declared a dividend of two per cent,
r,ayable FEBRUARY LIST, 1879,
At Midway. KY, on the goth, a
house in which two children had 10 q
left by their mother. took fire, during
her absence, and both children per