Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-23
n News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
GoLp closed in New York yesterday at
1898.
SOME corn recently shipped to Arkansas
from st. Louis has been sent back. Arkan-
sas has all the corn she wants.
A TABLE, said to have been once owned
by Marie Antoinette, sold in New York last
week for $l,15O.
The revenue from tobacco in Great Brit
ain is said to be larger than the income of
the English Church.
A MISS MACDONALD advertises in Liver
pool paper that she now keeps the Grapes
Inn, and is nearly seven feet high.
THAT mysterious sceurge, the cholera,
was very viralent at Teheran, Persia, at
last accounts.
Two young men aged respectively 20 and
81, have recently been executed by the ga
rotte in Madrid, for numbering charitable
lady.
A LONDON paper says that vegetable
gas" has been invented which gives bril-
liant light, has no offensive smell, and can
begenerated in any ordinary kitchen range
TIE Musical Standard says that at Bap-
tist meeting house in Camberwell, England,
the choir sings hymns to such tunes as
Am not fondly thine own"
A sIGNALMAN on the London and Dover
Railway has been sentenced to two months
Imprisonment with hard labor for neglect
ing his duty.
Mr.. WEISS, the biographer of Theodore
Parker, has written a half dozen lectures
on the religious notions of the ancient
Greeks.
SIXTEEN MILLION feet of lumber have
been sold in Muscatine, Iowa, this season.
At$20 per thousand feet this would be the
sum of $3.240,OOO. 't
QUrrE a number of policemen in Eng
land have recently been shot at by men
and in one or two cases, women-out of
employment.
EVERY grave in the churchyards of Trim
ity and st. Paul's, New York, is worth
$4,000 as real estate-and the pious corpo-
rations are wide awake to the fact.
VrrRIoL throwing is becoming frequent
In London. The corrosive liquid is usually
spirited from syringe, aud numbers of
fine dresses are nightly ruined by the vile
practice.
A MEETING of colored citizens Of Leav-
enworth, Kansas, lately resolved to redou-
Bile their efforts to win the right of suffrage,
and recommended to call State Conven-
tion to petition Congress to confer that
right.
A FRENCH author, named Deschanel,
published book entitled ''The Evil that is
Said About Women" 1t has sale of sew
en- editions. 1t was succeeded by COM
panion book, called '.the Good that is Said
About Women" 1t had no sale at ALL
DIR. ADAM CLARK, who had strong aver
sion to pork, was called upon to say grace
at dinner where the principal dish was
roast pig. He is reported to have said: 30
Lord. if Thou canst bless under the Gospel
what Thou didst curse under the law, bless
this pig"
6THE Chicago Tribune says that in central
and southern Illinois the small streams are
exhausted, the grass is dried up, and cattle
have to be driven long distances to find
water and pasturage; and the same is true
in Iowa, Nebraska, and other States. If
the winter sets in without heavy rains,
there will be great difficulty in keeping
stock alive.
M. BERTHEMY. the French Minister, and
Mr.. Blaque, the Turkish Minister, have
gone on a shooting expedition into the up
per counties Of Maryland. A large hunt
ing party is being organized among the
members Of the foreign Legations, to so for
. few days. shooting in the valley of Vir-
ginia. 1t is expected that the party will
leave some time next week.
PRINCE Salm Salm has published reply
to General Lopez statement exonerating
himself from the charge of having betrayed
Macmillan. The Prince denounces him as
a base liar and challenges him to mortal
combat. AS Salm Salm is now prisoner.
serving out seven years. sentence, the pas
sions of the parties will have plenty of time
to cool.
GUIzoT, who is eighty-four, says that in
1848, after his downfall, he tried to drown
his grief by hard work. Instead of Destroy
ing him, as he intended it should, it rend-
cred him wonderfully hale and vigorous.
In INDIANA, reaction in the matter of
granting divorces is noted. A Ajournal of
that State says that out of the 5S petitions
for divorce recently before the courts in
New Albany, only five were granted. The
facility with which divorces used to be OBJ
tanned in Indiana was matter of notoriety,
and any signs of a change are gratifying.
TIE town of Dixon, Illinois. was in
tensely excited, a few days since, upon the
discovery of box in the river, about half
wav to Nelson Station, six miles distant,
containing the body of man with his
head and feet chopped off and packed in
with the body. The remains were of a
person but recently deceased, decomposi-
tion not having taken place, and the fea-
lures being as natural as if asleep. The
box was weighed down with stones, and
secured to willow with rope, which was
discovered by fisherman. 1t seemed evil
dent that whoever deposited the body in
he river intended shortly to remove it.
The head, feet and limbs were rudely
chopped of. All thus far in connection
with the affair is mystery, and there is in
tense excitement.