The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-05-10
CLIPPINGS.

S7l 90 Amount in the treasury, $751;
9S7,O2S 50. @
1t is believed that the Postmaster
General will reporttavorably upon the
project of Government telegraph lines.
The estimated charge will be one third
ofa cent per word. OH
1t is thought that Texas will produce
the largest cotton crop the coming sea-
sor Of any of the cotton growing States,
and South Carolina the smallest.
The new paper shirts are to be sold
for twenty-five cents each.
The Sandusky Register chronicles
the catching of Is lb white fish, tho
largest. it thinks, ever taken from
Lake Erie. -. .a .
Governor Hawley, OF Connecticut, C in
his inaugural address, takes strong
ground in favor of negro suffrage, and
advises that it again be submitted to a
vote of the people of that State.
Three School Houses have recently
been destroyed by fire in Madison
county.
The Lima Gazette states that during
the year 1866, over two hundred hou-
scs, will be erected in that place.
The rinderpest appears to be dying
out in England. The mortality for
the last week, reports of which have
reached us, is but 3, ,956.
The Commissioners of Agriculture
has received from Honduras, Central
America, swarm of stingless bees
These bees are easily swarmed, and
are excellent honey makers. f.,
Near Lake Worth, Fa., whiskyis man
factured from sea grapes and palmetto
berries. The beverage thus produced
Is said to possess remarkable qualities,
and is much cheaper than Bourbon
whisky or rye.
All the Richmond papers denounce
the reconstruction plan and declare that
not single Southern State will accept
it.
A boy was killed by jumping on
and off cow catcher of u locomotive,
in Chicago, few days ago. .. ..
Carriage springs, made of hickory
and weighing but six pounds is one OF
the latest improvements in carriage
making. They have been introduced
by the Messrs. Brendters of NewYork
ono of the oldest firms in the country
The Urbana Citizen says that one
day last week Mr.. Albert Cheney Of
Union township, Champaign county
shot and killed a large grey wolf which
had been committing depredations on
the sheep folds of the neighborhood,
A building association has been form
ed at Newark, with capital stock o.
$50, ,00O Tho declared object is tc
furnish good substantial property tc
renters at fair price. sl
Frank Gurley, the murderer Of l3en
cral Robert McCook, was released or
parole, at Huntsville, Alabama, Apri
%. Gurley is Sheriff of his county
and will soon enter upon the duties o
his office.
The Chicago Republican says tina
more than forty new factories, the ma
Ijority of them for the production o
woollen goods, are to be erected il
Illinois this summer. The capital EN-
ploycd in them will exceed milioI
of dollars. -a.. reg ..Uf .. ..s.
A snake, SO largo as to frighten tn,
citizens around about Georgetown
Brown county, Ohio, has been seen, ,ant
Captain Espy's battery of artillery ha
been sent for from Ripley, to demolisl
his snakeship; so wo learn from th'
Union.
The work ofremoving the dead from
tho Bull Run battle. field has commenc
ed. They will be removed either t,
Arlington or Winchester.
A sample of cotton, sent to Senate
Lane, of Indiana, from the Sandwich
Islands, is said to be equal in quality
to the best Sea Island. Two crops /
year are produced there.
Mr. Mayall, a London photographer
has invented new solar camera b,
which he can magnify small cartes d
viSite to life.sizc portraits.
A recently published report of death
in San Francisco according to the BuI
ietin, of that city. exhibits smalle
ratio of mortality than can be show
by any other city in the United States
We learn from the Scioto Gazette Q
the 1st inst, that on the evening Of tn
2Sth ult,, the paper mill of Messrs Ing
ham & Brothers, was partly destroye G.
by fire. Their splendid Fourdririe
machine, worth sl2, 900, was fortunate
, ly not much injured.
The Treasury Department has re
ceived, through the United States Con
sui at Birmingham, England, $4,000 i
gold, subscribed by the citizens Of tina
place for the benefit of the freed rue
/, Of this country.
Nearly thrcc hundred specimens {
left handed writing, by soldiers VIII
had lost their right hands, were on es
hibition at Washington, few day
ago. Speeches were made by Gener'
Howard, General Banks, Speaker Co
! fax, in commentator of the extrao
: dlnary skill displayed in the mann
= script, and in favor of giving employ