The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-07-26
CLIPPINGS.

IN OperuIlon III due I(0cK township,
Muskingum county.
A young lady while bathing in East
New London, the other day, had n
of her toes so badly bitten by a crab
that it will have to be a%mputated.
The advertising ofletters remaining
in Post Offices is to be discontinued
after October 1st, 1866, except at "irst
class Offices"
Mrs. David Smith, ofLebanon, Tenn,
recently gave birth TO four children
two boys and two girls-each weigh
ing six pounds. The mother and chill
dren are doing well, and all are likely
to live.
Governor Patton has returned to
Alabama, having not only negotiated
a largo amount of State bonds for the
relief of the destitute, but received a.
bundant voluntary contributions from
Missouri and Illinois, tho only two
States he visited.
An English counterfeiter of green
backs has been arrested at Atlanta
He states that the bills were made at
Nottingham, England, and that he
with nine accomplices came here for
the purpose of peddling them. Three
are in New York, two in Boston, one
in Cincinnati, one in St Louis, one in
Nashville, and ono unknown.
On last Saturday week, Yankee Sui.
%livant, u GAINESVILLE rough, beat Billy
Wilson, in the Stacey House of that
city, inhicting injuries of which he
died on Sunday morning. Sullivant
hired a horse and buggy and fed, but
was captured about ID miles from the
city. He is now in Jail. Wilson
leaves a wife and one or two children.
The Military Board appointed for
an examination O. the various fire arms
now in use by different nations, have
carefully examined sixty.one different
rifles and muskets and have reported
that the most effective, safe and sub.
s%tantial arm is the Springfield rifc
with the Bcrdan Improvement,
which changes it to a breech. loading
rife. The Board consisted Of Major
Gems. Hancock, Buchanan and Griffin,
Brig. Gen. Hayes, and Col. Owens,
Benton and Porter.
On Saturday last, Mrs. Marston, Of
East Haddam, Conn, took her daugh-
ter and the child Of a neighbor to the
river for a bath. She sat on tho bank
watching the children, when suddenly
her attention was attracted by their
cries, and she found that they had got
beyond their depth. With motherly
instinct she plunged into the water to
rescue the little ones, and was herself
carried under. All three soon appear.
ed at the surface, struggling for life
but tho effort was unavailing, and they
finally went down to- watery grave.
GEEERAL SHERMAN said at the sol
diers' meeting at Salem, Illinois, on the
Fourth, that he never voted but once
in his life.
j. w. Crafts, who was killed lately
in Boston, had his life insured for $780,.
600 in thirteen different companies.
The gold mines developed near Au.
gusta, Georgia, a few days ago, are be,
ing worked, and the workings revea.
considerable quantities Of pure gold
and also rich specimens of quartz II
is believed that largo fortunes exist
in the mine from present appearances
A float of 9,OOO,O 600 logs, covering
ton acres, and managed by forty men
is expected at Lewiston, Maine, thi:
month.
The Union Pacific Railroad will be
completed from Omaha to Fort Kear
ney before October.
The Buffalo Express figures up the
receipts OF grain at that place on The
18th and 18th ult., at 2,6S9,252 bush
els-thc hrgest mount over received
in the same time at any port in the
world.
The Rev. Lindsey, who whipped hi'
child TO death, is a fugitive. He sought
refuge from popular fury at the Medi.
ma Jail, but as the keeper wouldn't
admit him, he took the first train for
Canada.
The Excise law in New York has
been suspended by the courts in the
city, and for the present the beer sa
looms arc having it all their own way
Nearly six thousand had been licensed
affording an addition TO the city trea
Sury of over million of dollars.
General Magrudcr is seeking per
mission to return to the United States
He says tho Imperial Government il
Mexico is bankrupt, and the rcbe
~colouists are compelled to seek othcl
quarters.
The President and Secretary Seward
arc 10 be present at laying tho corner
stone Of tho Douglas Monument, in
Chicago, after the adjournment ofCon
gross. Mr.. Seward will deliver The
GRAFTON.
A rich vein of oil has been strucl
near Chattanooga, yielding sixty bar
rels per hour. The property on which
the well is was hitherto considered use
less. The company bought it for S;
an acre. The oil is very thick, of d
lubricating nature.
The total tax assessed in Chicago, Al
appears from lists just published
amounts to Sl,395, $40. G. Schutler
wagon manufacturer, returns the larg
/, est income, S19S,77l, and G. IL. McCor
mick, the rcaping-machine man, put
in the next, Sl53,l35.