The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-08-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


gives a subsidy of $4,000 q year to
the Atlantic Telegraph.
Although many members of Con-
gress voted against the increase Of
their salaries, it is pretty clearly es,
tablishcd that every one of tbom bad
drawn the extra pay.
General Baird telegraphs to Wash
ington that about forty persons were
killed in the New Orleans riots, mostly
friends of the Convention.
The President signed the bill regula.
ting the manner of holding Senatori
al elections, which it was expected by
many that he would veto.
John G. Healy, who shot Cory al
the Spencer House in Cincinnati, has
been held to bail in the sum of 800, O0O
on a charge Of murder in the I'd de.
gree.
A new bill to increase the regular
army was agreed to, before the ad.
journment of Congress. 1t provides
for sixty-one regiments-forty-ive o.
which are infantry. stu
The deaths from cholera in New
York city and on the adjacent islands,
during the past week, numbered two
hundred. ~ JUS
The Delaware Gazette states that
one man in that county has cultivated
blackberrlos TO such an extent that
his crop this season amounts to 200
bushels.
The Printing Bureau of the Treas.
ury Department is now printing ten
millions of stamps, Of different de-
nomination, for beer, barrels, as requi-
red by a law recently passed.
The Commissioners Of Agriculture
states that the wheat crop Of the coun-
try, though deficient in quantity, is of
u quality making it equal IN value to
the crop of last year.
Tho Associated Press have made ar
rangements for two hundred words or
loss from Valentia each day, at a cost
of eighty thousand dollars for the first
year.
Two young mon, belonging to a par
ty visiting the Mammoth Cave, were
lost at 10 A. NJ on the LIST instant. 1t
is feared they fell down u steep bank
near which they were last seen.
Major General W. S. Rosecrans and
Major General George Crook U. S. W
have boon brevoted Major Generals in
tho Regular Army--promotions that
that should have been made long
ago.
The President did not notify either
House that ho had signed the bill adj
hitting Nebraska; neither did he veto
it. In political parlance this is called
"pockoting" n bill, and is o very clever
way Of defeating it.
A correspondent Of tho Milwaukee
News says-that minnesota is about to
yield another Of her bountiful har.
vests. People only fear now that the
wheat crop will be loo luxuriant. /
have known as much as IS bushels TO
tho aero raised here"
Tho population Of Galveston and
Houston, in Texas, has increased rap.
idly since the war begun. Galveston
has grown from 5000 to 10000, whilst
Houston, which had not more than
5000 people in 1880, now numbers
l6, 900.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev.
calls attention to the fact that the
new law makes the word "money" to
include checks, drafts and other in.
struments given for the payment of
money; and, therefore, receipts for
checks, drafts, &C.; are to be stamped
If given for money.
Havana letters say that another
fleet is about to sail for tho
South Pacific, to resume tho war q.
sainss the allied South American Re-
publics. 1t consists of n iron. clad,
four steam frigatos, and four trans
ports, with armamonts, making q to.
.al of n hundred and eighty. four
guns. Tho transports will carry TO-
300 or $4,000 infantry.
On Wcdn csday evening q masquer-
lde party was given at National Hall,
Ti6in, Ohio. Tho festivities of the oc.
'asion wore at their hight, whom one
If tho maskors, Mr.. Perry A, Smith,
Who had gone into tho gallery to lie
fell from the fourth story to the
tone steps ofthe cellar. Hewas pick
d up badly injured, his logs and arms
'oing brokon. HO fingered only a fow
Two miles oftho Union Pacific rail.