Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-13
STATE AND GENERAL NEWS.

DEsTRrcTIvE FIRE--The stillhouse and
| warehouse OF Chaffee q Co, at Tippecanoe,
| Miami county, was burned on Friday night,
and $4,000 worth Of whisky destroyed.
The Warren, Trumbull county, oOnstitu-
ton says: " ~
Oil has been struck at depth of 724 feet
In Mecca, with such show that stimulates
oil men to look after good oil territory
Farms near the Deep Well have advanced
one hundred per cent. within ten days.
BLED TO DEATH.-A young lady, Miss
Mite who had both legs cut off by a loco
motive on the Cleveland and Pittsburg rail-
road, on the 9th inst, has bled to DEATH
Both legs were amputated below the knees.
She resided at Fairview Guernsey county,
and had been on visit to an uncle.
THE Xenia 1'orchliglit, reports more en-
courging accounts from the farmers of that
county rs to the wheat prospect for the
coming harvest. 1t says:
'.There will be much good wheat yet and
| from our present information we may look
for at least as much as we raised last year."
| GOLD Found IN AN OLD SHoE.--A few
days ago there was $2,S00 in gold found In
the wood-shed attached to the residence of
Mrs. J. $. Plants, wife Of Judge Plants, de-
ceased, in Bucyrus, Crawford county, Ohio,
| by one of her sons. The money was tied
| lupin two small bags, and placed in an old
shoe. It is supposed that the money was
placed there BY the Judge Immediately be-
fore his fatal trip to the West, where he
died, but hoping to recover his health,
neglected to say anything about tuntil 1t
was too late.
MIscEGENATIoN. genuine case of mis-
cegenation has been undergoing investigaz
tion before the Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa.
A white woman and two negro men were
found occupying the same apartment. The
woman was sent to Jail for thirty days, and
the negroes fined each $50 and costs.
IN Scotland, there are i'm the population,
1S2,3 more marriageable women than
men. Even, therefore, though every man
above fifteen years of age was to marry,
17.2 per cent. of all the marriageable wo-
men must remain unmarried.
A BELGIUM paper says that petroleum oil
lamps arc affected by music; a certain note
on brass instrument puts them out. M.
Duhem extiDguished eight lamps in sue
cession by the sound of trumpet Hcwas
one of the late M. Julien's band, and is pro-
fessor at the Brussels Conservatory of
Music.
Liberal subscriptions have been madein
Buffalo, to secure the construction of
bridge at that point, across the Niagara
river, The design is to counteract the de
version Of travel by way of Niagara Falls.
WILLIAM ID. TIcKNoR, the well known
Boston publisher of the house of Ticknor
& Fields, died very suddenly on Sunday
morning at the Continental Hotel, in Phila-
delphia.
THE Liverpool Post publishes statement
OF the condition of the inhabitants of the
Cape de Verde Islands, from which 1t APP
pears that the people are on the verge of
starvation. The cause of this calamity is
said to be the fearful drouth, which has
overwhelmed both man and beast.
NOTWITHSTANDING Louisiana has now an
Executive State Government on 'loyal
basis" there has not been much relaxation
of military superintendent of its civil and
social affairs. The military yet exercise
control even down to the municipal regula-
tions. -q .a1rsf79 9sst
A COMPLETE list of soldiers who have
died inand about New York city within the
past year, embraces 1000 names, and fills
nearly, seven newspaper columns. OF the
entire number about one-third have been
claimed by friends.
THE Turner's of Chicago have rented
their Hall to the Democratic National Con-
vention to be held in that city on the Fourth
of July next. The rent to be paid is $1,000.
The RHODE ISLAND ELEcTIoN.-The N.
Y. Tribune figures Smith (Rep.) elected Gov
ernor in Rhode Island by from 70 to lao ma
iority. .,-,-
A year ago the Republican majority was. -. .324s
Republican majority now. :.............. l4o
-
Republican loss. 3loe
DEATH OF AN CONGRESSMAN AND EDI-
ToR.LThe Hon. William A. Harris, we'll
known democratic politician, died in Pike
county, Missouri, on the 2Sth ult. He was
Virginian, and formerly represented the
',tenth legionn in Congress. In lS43 he
published the Spectator, a democratic paper
in Washington, and subsec uently was one
of the proprietors Of the Constitution, pub
lshed in the same city. In 1916 he was ap-
pointed United States Minister to the Ar
gentine Republic, and previously served In
other public capacities. He removed to