The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-02-22
CLIPPINGS FROm EXCHANGES.

New Mexico is making preparation
o apply for admission into the Union.
By an alteration about to- be made
n the Springfield rifle it can be fired
eighteen times ina minute.
Our population, in Ohio, in the year
which has just closed, according TO the
Report of the State Auditor, was q
ia, ,974. iN 5itt0c
A soldier smothered himself to death
1t the Briggs House in Chicago, by
Jlowing out the gas before he went to
bed, instead of turning it off. 8
The GAINESVILLE, Courier says some
sales of Central Ohio Railroad Stock
in the Company as reorganized, have
been mado in that city at 4S cents
on the dollar.
The Auditor of States Report says
that tho expenditures Of the state for
war purposes, during the rebellion, was
$40, ,41O,23S,71.
Camp Chase is nearly played out, all
the records having been removed 10
Columbus, ,and but few companies of
Hancock's s corps remain there, toguard
Government property. .a;sa
The Goth New York Militia, the last
infantry regiment of the army OF the
Potomac has been mustered out and
discharged. rt4b a 100
1t has been decided that quarter
master aud commissary vouchers are
not negotiable. )a eH 7tsG .
Liquor is sold at 900 places in the
city of Washington-onc for every
ninety of the population. ~
A law is before the Legislature O.
Pennsylvania, which makes it pena
olfenso, punishable by fine and impris
onmcnt, to send a falscrcport of a mar
riage to u newspaper.
A new census of Illinois has jus
been completed, which shows the tota
population of that State to be 2, $4,000
an increase of $4,000 in five yciSs.
The Territorial Legislature of Ne
braska have framed II Constitution, t
be submitted to the people on the 22'
of June. s 4rst ron gI t'sH
One million five hundred tbousan'
pounds ofIcotton Of good staple, hav
been raised in the vicinity OF Carbon
dale, Jackson county, Illinois, the pas
, season. ,e ...r .,..at- ..,.4ais.
The "Providcnt Association of th
city of Boston furnished coal, clothin
&C., to over / 200 poor families durin
the month Of January, cxpending 81
700 for the purpose. rs.,r
CHEF JUSTICE. Tho Supreme Coul
of Ohio commenced the judicial yea
last week, Judge Brinkerhoff bein
sworn in as the new judge. Judge JC
= siah Scott is now Chief Justice. qg
The cattle plague, or rindcrpest. {
it is called, is on the increase in Gre;
t Britain; 80, 900 head have died ol tt
n disease since it made Its appearan'
Y there. eH
The Canadians have been cruel
hoaxed and are most shamefully scare
! Their military are up i'm arms, and Il
9 pcople-aro fleeing from the frontier
l. tho interior, and yet not one arm(
Is Fonian has been seen,
n The Detroit Press says that scvcntc'
, hundred cords of the apple tree und
: which General Lee surrendered u
l. army of Virginia having been di
Il posed of Mt remunorativo rates, it is
ficially announced that no didn't su
= render under an apple tree at all,
II Prof Agassiz's exploration on 1
y main stream Of tho Amazon alone b!
30 resulted in the discovery of no lc
h than eleven hundred and sixty,thr
n. species of fish, which is Il greater nuI
Il Der than exist in tho Mediterranean.
,r The Hartford Press says: "a ragg
, little fellow was seen skating on o.
= of our ponds lately, without shoes
stockings, his skates being strapp'
on his bare feet. He said it was jol
good fun, and that his feet were war
&c enough ifho kept on skating"
:. The Cleveland Herald says; A GC
is man woman gave birth to u fine b
=. on The cars between that city and Er
n early on Tuesday morning, On I
,r arrival of tho party Of emigrants
d which she belonged, the mother a
rs child were taken to tho William I
IL House, whore they will remain un
c. able to travel. ...
n A highly important case has be
,p decided by tho United States Supro'
" Court, involving the validity Of the
ut coptanccs issued by j B, Floyd as S
or rotary of War to Russell, Majors a
C. Waddcll. The Court held that ov
n. when in tho hands Of an innocent b
70 der thoy were not to be paid by
~ United States. ra.a 4tH.g
r, "The Erring Woman's Refuge"
10 Chicago, now three years in opcrati
u has received forty.two women DUR
az tho past year. OF these eight HI
o. gone into families, by permission OF
y board of managers, six have been !
VI torcd to their friends, two have b.
~, respectfully married, two dismissed
no hopeless cases, six have left with
ls permission, and eighteen remain
lu Wv the institution.
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~ ~ pen. A free school bill, making ca
,ss cndowmonts, but separate schools
w. w white and colored children, has pas
mt tho House Of Representatives OF 4