The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-03-22
CLIPPINGS FROM ENHANCES.

The wholesale trade OF Toledo tor
the year 1865, amounted to $ll, ,2SO, $50.
WM. RITrENHousE, the dcfaulting
Treasurer of Ross County, has been
placed under arrest. IN .s..
The President on Saturday signed
the act giving CLARA BARTON $4,000
for services rendered and money ex.
pended in searching out missing SOL
diers.
Parties from Marietta, Ohio, have
arrived at Nashville for the purpose Of
erecting an extensive petroleum re-
finery in the neighborhood Of Nash
vile. ... ..l.
The father and mother of Mrs. Gov
ernor Fenton, of New York, both aged
80 years, diod tho same day--Saturday,
March 3D.. ff .. .HG r. la
1t is now announced that Judge
Smith at Lebanon, will pass sentence
upon Samuel Coovert, convicted OF the
Roosa murder, April 9Th.
The Circleville Union says that in
cne school district in that county at a
rat hunt 2,209 rats were killed in ten
days, every man in the district par
ticipating. ,.. .r5 a.
The House Committee on Appropri-
rtions has reported the bill to pay Mis-
souri, $G,7l5, 900 for expenses incurred
in putting her militia into the field, and
recommended its passage. 'o'
Tho Georgetown Union says, the
wife of Albert Brown, of Pike town
ship, last Thursday presented him
with three live littlo hopefuls, two
boys and girl.
Early on Tuesday morning an infant
was found alive in a buggy belonging
to a young gentleman of this City, 1t
was taken up and sent to tho County
Infrmary,-Newark american ..
Tho Rhode Island Legislature has
passed a bill prohibiting the exclusion
of children from any public school on
account of color or race, Tho law
goes into effect on the 10Th of May
next.
E:V'A Miss Foster, of Thorn town
ship few weeks since, while in q
spasm, fell into the fire and on last
Thursday died from the injury. u
Mrs. hartman, an aged widow resi-
ding in Hopewell Tp,, was found dead
upon the floor of her sleeping room. II
is supposed that during the night she
was seized with n spasm and in hol
struggles fell from the bed and expired
Perry County Weekly.
A little boy about FIVE yea,S of ago
while his mother was preparing som(
coffee, seized two or three grains, ant
glcefully ran away with them, Put.
ting some into his mouth, while laugh
ing, either grain or a piece Of one
got into his wind Pipe or lungs, produ
cling death in about l3 hours. So say
the Marietta Register,
Eighty members of tho Ohio Legis
lature visited Newark on Saturday 81
inst, were entertained in the mos
sumptuous manner, looked at sevora
sites for an Agricultural College, at
and excellent dinner and u splendiC
supper, danced in the evening, and re
turned well pleased with their trip.
Two prominent business mon O
Cincinnati, l.. G. Hopkins, merchant
and M. d, Potter, senior proprietor 0
tho Commercial, are in southern eli
mates, seeking the recovery of healtI
lost in too incessant application to bus
mess. Mr.. H, is in Cuba, and Mr.. I
in New Orleans. ro l1sa..
ANOTHER STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION. :
The Steamer r. J. Lockwood on he
trip from New Orleans, exploded he
boiler on Sunday night 4th inst, a fe,
miles below Memphis, killing forty O
fifty persons instantly, and scaldin
many more. She afterwards burr
/ and sunk. She wss inspected onl
, four days before.