The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-11-15
CLIPPINGS.

One of the galleries IN the Farls
Exposition will be devoted 10 the dis
play of human skulls.
A tourist has found q crater in the
Sandwich Islands, which is ten miles
long, six miles wide and 1900 feet
deep
The Empress Carlotta of Mexico is
pronounced incnrably insane. 1t seems
she has attempted to commit suicide.
England has sent to America, in the
last fifty years, 100000 of her popu'
lation, and they in that time have sent
to their friends at homo $40, O,OOO,OOO,
1t is stated that the Great Eastern
has been chartered by NJ. Despeches,
to ply between New York and Brest
during the season OF the Paris Expo
sition.
The Legislature of Georgia has re-
Ijected the proposed amendment to the
Constitution. In the Senate the vote
was unanimous, in the House one hun
dred and thirty,one to two.
Mr.. Hiram Woodruff AYERS that he
has a horse, now in training, which will
be far superior TO Dexter, and which
has already made quarter of a mile
in thirty-three seconds.
The defeated Radical candidates for
Congress in the First and Third Mary.
land Districts announce theif intention
to contest the seats OF the successful
Democrats.
Dispatches from Quebec, Canada
state that the Provincial Cabinet have
decided to commute the sentence of the
condemned Fenians to imprisonment
for term of years.
The Agricultural Department at
Washington has for experimental quan.
tity of seeds Of vegetables and samples
of grain received from Austria and
held in high estimation there.
The Now York Tribune states that
Mr. A. L. Stewart will shortly COM
mence the work of erecting houses for
the poor, and that his plans will in
, volvc an expenditure Of nearly five
millions
The Clermont Courier gives an &C.
count of poplar tree lately cut near
Batavia, out of which were obtained
thirteen thousand shingles, three thou
, sandsfeet of inch lumber and ten wag.
on loads Of wood.
! The Macon (Ga) Telegraph records
tho departure of some two hundred
and fifty emigrants for Liberia, from
' that city, recently, who propose set
Ting in the town Of Greenville, in the
colorod Republic.
In Nashville colored children ar,
heartily invited to attend the Catholic
q Sabbath schools with the other chill
dren, and no distinction is made OF
+ account of color or previous condition
). Of servitlde.
o The activity with which the politi
i cal guilotine has been working ma,
r be illustrated by the fact that over tw
v thousand two hundred changes O
y postmas:ers in the North and Yves
. have been made since the 6rst day G
= July.
;, Edward Morris, the juvenile mur
u derer, in Cincinnati, who killed. one G
4 his playmates, Patrick Gallagher, wit
l. pistol shot, was on Thursday held TO
o trial before tho Court of Commo
s Pleas, on the charge of murder in tn
second degree. ~
}. A late dispatch from Indianapol
|. says: The pork packing season is be
4 ing delayed here by the contumacy {
' holders ard feeders, the prices bein
/. too high for packers Money was los
/. last season, and they are not anxiou
). to buy until there is a fall.
% Mrs. Frances D. Gage says in lie
t, ter from Pennsylvania; 81 met one {
E. the jurymen who helped to decide th
IS tato of John Brown-a more ardeI
G. huter of slavery and secession than t
= is to-day, will be carcly found. Trul.
the old mans soul goes marchin
on.
!" The Legislative elections in Tel
ncssee have resulted most cheering
he tor the Radical Unionists. They hay
to made numerous gains, unseatiGg son
h. of the most vonomous rebels, and s
rn curing quorum, with or without NJ
d. Johnson's acquiescence.
10 Some workmen engaged in rerai
IN ing an old wooden building in Detro
u found wire passing under the Ao
IA and between the partitions of wa
eI and upon investigation found that cit
.o' er end was attached to board of Il
no floor seven feet distant from each 8
ig ter in such manner that most pc
: feet sy stem of signals could be carrie
10, on. intended undoubtedly for I
u u use of gamblers.
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