The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-04-19
CLIPPINGS.

mint in March, in gold, was over one
million and half; in silvcr, thirty.
three thousand dollars.
The report Of the escape of aHead.
Centre" Stephens is confirmed. He
arrived at Paris on the 18Th of March.
and became the guest OF John Mitch
ell. His intended departure from
Havre for the United States is an
nonnced, and he may soon be expected
in New York.
The whole membership Of the Meth
odist church north and south ia given
at !, ,658,32O; OF the Baptist church ], !
04O, ,3O3.
Over one thousand persons made a
profession of religion during the late
revival in Elmira, New York.
The Ohio Repository, published in
Canton, Stark county, completed its
fifLy-frst volume on the Both of March.
1t was established in 1915, by John
Saxton, the present senior editor
With the commencement of its fifty
second volume, the Repository puts on
new Typographical dress.
A dispatch from Memphis states
that while Gen. Forrest was leproach
ing negro for cruelty to his wife he
was attacked by him, and in self de-
Tense seized an AK and killed his as
sailant. Gen. Forrest surrendered
himself Immediately to the Sheriff.
1t is estimated that one thousand
persons were killed or wounded by the
late tornado in Pope and johnson
counties, in Illinois.
Official advices from Mexico confirm
the report Of the defeat and route of
the Imperial General Mcndcz with
the loss of all his supplies and person
al.efects.
A huge 1stof April hoax was perpetrat-
ed upon the people of Philadelphia on
the lst. A morning paper contained a
pretended correspondence with Presi-
dent Johnson, in which the President
promised to visit Philadelphia yester.
day, accompanied by several members
ofhis Cabinet. The church where he
was to attend service was througed
long before church hours, and SO was
the hotel where he was expected to
stop.
The Cork Examiner says upward OF
forty thousand persons left Ireland
during the first week of March for A.
merica. Two thirds were of the mid.
ding and farming classes. So much
for Fenianism in Ireland.
A Paris letter of March %, says that
5000 mcn left for Mexico, with the
greatest secresy, many of them old sol.
diers. 1000 Austrians are also to be
sent to Maximilian, to fill up the los.
ses of the Austrian contingent.
1t is stated that forty-fve thousand
acres of land in South east Missouri are
being taken up every month, under
the Homestead act, and that the extra.
ordinary amount of seventy thousand
will be reached by next May.
There is good nows from the Allan
tic Telegraph Company. All the stock
of the new company has been taken;
the now cable is manufactured at the
rate Of nineteen nautical miles per
day; the Great Eastern is fitting out
for her new voyage, which is to begin
I.on the 3Oth of June, and the prospects
'of the enterprise are in every way en-.
couraging.
wThc Postal Bill! as it passed the
House provides that prepaid letters
shall be forwarded from one office to
another, and dead letters returned
without extra charge. Money orders
may may also be issued for sums Of
$50 and les, instead of $50 and less as
the law now stands. Almost every OBJ,
jectionable feature was struck out and
the progressive ones retained.