The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-11-08
CLIPPINCs.

They are careful correspondents. and
don'tspend "till'' money playing bill.
liards, drinking or driving fast bors.
es.
There have been eight thousand
new buildings erected in Chicago
within the past twelve months, at a
cost Of nearly s7,00O,OOO.
Ohio Agricultural College scrip 10
the amount Of over 100000 acres, has
been sold ut price averaging fifty
three cents per acre.
An expedition, numbering 500 to
500 persons, is to leave Santa Fe, on
the 1st Of January, for the placers on
the Gia>River, in Arizona. Many ad- :
vcnturers from st. Louis and Lcaven.
worth have already reached Santa Fe
to join it.
Eight Lime kiIns near Sandusky,
turn out about 4500 barrels of lime
week.
The receipts Of internal revenue
from July 1st to Saturday last amount
ed to sl2l ,975, ,4O1 80.
During the year ending Sept. 3, 1866,
Pennsylvania has reduced her debt
50, l58,OO9 81.
The official vote Of Indiana gives
Trussler for Secretary OF State ma
jority Of 1869.
Nine hundred and forty.seven emf
grants passed through Columbus last
week, Of whom 41O will settle in
Ohio.
The New York Tribune denounces
Wendell Phillips for his injurious
speeches, and want Of consistency on
political affairs,
In Canada, John Mcmahon, a Cath
olic priest, has been found guilty OF be-
ing concerned with the Fenians, and
sentenced to be hung.
The Baptist anniversaries Of their
benevolent institutions was held in
Wooster last week. About 500 church.
es and 35, 900 members were represent
cd. The Board of Education ask ST.
600 to educate young men for the min
istry.
A party that can stand where the
Democratic party has stood for six
years past Observation-Disclosures York
World
This is like the confidence OF the old
woman who said "she had noticed
that when she lived through New
Years day she always lived through
the rest of the year st Louis Re-
publican.
A young lady in Wisconsin had
both her legs and her collar bone bro.
ken by the kicking Of horse. Her
hoops touched the horse while she was
passing on the sidewalk. He began
kicking, and his foot got entangled IN
her hoops.
The Revenue Commissioners esti-
mate that there are consumed in the
United States, yearly, 42000,0O0 gal
Ions distilled spirits; 169,0O0,00O gal
Ions fermented liquors, and 100000
gallons imported liquors, costing $780,
| 100000, and paying Government
revenue of s46,727,2 ,286.
F The Cincinnati Commercial says
that large quantities Of fowling pieces
and ammunition for sporting purposes
are purchased in that market for South
ern negroes, who arc eager to avail
themselves of their new privilege OF
owning a gun.
Hon. Reverdy Johnson having Civ
en- an opinion, in reply to letter Of
Hon Charles l. Scott, OF Wilcox coun,
ty, Alabama, that the three cent cotton
tax is unconstitutional, tho cotton
planters of that county are concerting
measures 10 have the question tested in
the Supreme Court.
The Emperor OF Brazil closed the
session of the Assembly on September
El6. In his speech he informed the
members that ''the United States oI
North America had given TO Brazil.tht
most complete satisfaction for the vic
lent capture in the port of Bahia o
the privateer Florida by the wal
steamer Wachuset." a1f
, The GAINESVILLE Courier is informed
that an oil well, known as the Dover
well, going down on FinDey Run, Bln'
f Rock township, when at depth o
f four hundred and forty feet, struck ;
vein of fine marble, which proved Il
be thirty feet thick, and in quality
: said TO be as fine as Italian marble.-
! After penetrating some distance below
the marble vein oil was struck.
pe- The Petersburg Iya) Expres
says partridges are more abundan
than for many years; hares jump from
behind every bush, coons intest ever
; cornfeld; opossums despoil every per
simmon tree: squirrels fill the forest
: foxes bark around every henery, ant
the music Of the MOUNDS resouhus Vi
/, every breeze.
: wA lady waiter says: "Some tel
: years ago I went to my closet to get
: sponge cake, and [ found it covere'
S with those little pests tho red ants
Not knowing what to do with it,
+ laid it down on an old black walnu
!. table close by, and in less timo thai
it has taken me to write this, the ant
|, left the cake and the table. ] immedi
/. ately took the bint, and put 'walnn
: shelves in my closet and since tina
! time there. has not been 40 insec
seen.