The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-01-25
NEWS GLEANINoE.

umbus; but being suspected Of Republic B
IN tendencies he was rejected by his breth- 81
-en and not permitted to participate in the |" ).
iOings Of the glorious 9th. This has "stir- : :
red" up his friends athomc and an indig- l
nation meeting has been called. HotwOrk a
is expected.
Another Southern Commercial COnven
ton was held recently in New Orleans, but
it is said to have been very near total
failure. There was ilm attendance. and
but little interest manifested. Even South
ern men arc getting tired Of the farces en-
acted at these annual gatherings Of their
impracticable hot-heads.
The Pittsburg Dsspateh understands
that the liabilities OF Gen. Larimcr are a.
bout $500, 900; Of which S13o,0oO are the
Pittsburgh and Connelsville Railroad, and
500, 900 to the Ohio andPa. road. Also
that he has made an assignment in trust
to his creditors A
Upon the Legislature Of Indiana this
year, devolves the duty of dividing the
State into Senatorial and Representative
districts, and we observe that a committee
has been appointed to the House, Of one
from each Congressional district of the
State to make the division,
The purifying house, connected with the
Chicago Gas Works exploded Saturday
morning with loud report. The roof
completely demolished. Aperson with a
lighted candle entered the house and the
escaped gas exploded. No person injur-
ed.
Ono million OF dollars have been sunk to
sustain the London Daily Ners twas
established nine years ago, and Dickens
was its first editor. II was intended to
break down the Times byit, but the expert
ment failed Dickens did not remain in it
but a few months.
A new trial has been granted in tho case
, Green, convicted of the murder Of his wife
in Chicago. The ground of the new trial
a is stated to be a misapprehension on the
r part of the prisoners COUNSEL ofa ruling Of
Y the court, where BY competent evidence
t was excluded from the jury.
i A son of Mr.. Hartnett, Of Maumee City
o aged 9 or 10 years, met with cruel dealt
If on Saturday. The horse he was riding
6 took fright and ran, dragging the boy bal
d a mile by one Of the stirrups. When thu
al horse was stopped the little sufferer wa
of dead.
Of A coffee -roaster In New York. sued
l. man for 10 bags Of peas. The testimon.
of developed the fact that large quantitie
y of peas, chicOry. &C., were used. an
III the mixture all sold for pure ground CO,
&c foe. t.-i- -
'e The famous tancaster gun Is a failure
NJ The power is enormous when the ball ca
be made TO hit the mark, but this cannC
be done oftner than one time out Of sil
re The expense is to great too warrant th
a waste Of raw material.
d. The change of times in regard to mono
ST. and labor during the past year is exempt
re- fed in the fact that ayear ago strikes Fl
ed higher wages were frequent,and now mar
lat engaged in them arc begging for work.
raj some instances for bread.
M The venerable A. Coquillard, the earl
to est white settler in Northern Indiana, W
OIL killed few days ago by falling from sti'
of timber. He was widely known a.
'n- much respected.
IN; Rents in San Francisco have fallen
'he per cont, wages 40, and salaries so P
Lea cent, real estate is positively unsaleab
OF So writes an intelligent Californian to t
National 1ntelligencer.
"'' 1t was stated that the total amount
~ shipping wrecked on the Lakes the pi
~ ~ season isnearly as follows: Steamers Z; pl
~ pellers 12; briggs 6; barquos 40. Some
reported total wrecks.
20, The British screw propeller Canada
.,to been taken by the British government
convey troops to the Crimca. 1t will
,ro some months before it will again take
place in the United States.
oli- The veStry of Trinity Church. NJ
ith- York, has voted to Mrs. Wainwright, W
ow of the late Provisional Bishop p'
;, sion of 1000 dollars a year. ,v
Three hundred huts, each of the cap
..u ity to hold 80 soldiers were shipped fir
cetv M Southampton for the Crimea, on the 9
December.
About twenty tons Of poultry are S
hen to be sent daily to the New York mari
on the Camden and Amboy Railroad,
Pon- farmers of West Jersey.
amf A tri-weekly newspaper is to be publ
- ed at San Francisco, in Chinese and E
0' lish. This will be the first Chinese pal