The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-05-23
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Hoo. Samuel Mckee, of Mount
Sterling, KY, it is stated, will con
test the election of John 4. Young,
Congressman elect for the Ninth
District OF that State.
An Indiana exchange says it is
reported that in that State about
tive-sixths Of allth apples on the
low lands have been Killed by the
frost.
"Wild Bill" the Union scout re-
Gently described in HarperS Month
ly, has been acting as bearer Of
dispatches for General Hancock in
his Indian campaign.
General Sheridan has issued an
order in New Orleans, torbidding
the carrying of firearms, openly
or secretly, by any citizen, except
in performance of official duty.
Offenders are to be tried by military
commission.
The amount of grain now in
Chicago, as reported by various
warehouses to the Board OF Trade,
is 100000 bushels, being a de-
crease of l, ,754,000 bushels from the
same time last year.
Gen. Sherman telegraphs Gen.
Grant that he has advices from
Fort Buiord to the 10th of April
and the garrison up to that time
were all well. Tho report Of the
massacre originated in Chicago,
The New York Herald's special
says Senator Wilson addressed a
public meeting in New Orleans on
Thursday evening, and was follow
cd by a colored clergyman. Gen
Longstreet was one of the Vice
Presidents Of the meeting. Some
apprehension of a riot was felt, and
The military were kept under arms,
Tho Atlantic cable, according to
the London daily News, 10 now
transmitting more messages than
ever. The daily number is constant.
ly increasing, and the receipts now
average $3.50 in gold a day.
A new and important branch o.
southern industry is developing in
the swamps of North Carolina and
Virginia, from which large quaint
ties OF peat are now extracted. In
the Dismal Swamp peat can bt
manufactured at $3.50 per ton
which now costs So in New York
A butchering match recently
took pla3e in England,in which thu
successful contestant skinned ant
dressed twenty sheep in a work
manlike manner, in ninety.sever
minutes.
Tho income returns Throughout
the country, us far as sent in, arr
said to average but one half th,
returns of last year.
The Summit County Beacon sayt
that fine flock of sheep in tha
vicinity was attacked by dogs I
fcw nights ago, and about sixty o
them killed.
James Matthews recently brough
one thousand speckled trout frou
New York, to stock his fish ponC
near Fillmore, Ind. Tho ponC
contains about ono halfacre.
The registry Of the City Of Wash
lngton is completed. About Is,
800 is the entire number OF names
OF which there is u majority of 81;
white voters.
The Kansas City Journal say
thirty outlaws have been hanged
by vigilance committees in johnson
and Pettis Counties, Missouri, dur
ing the winter and spring.
The Salut Public, Of Lyons, say,
the quantity OF arms which Europ,
is engaged in Transforming or man
ufacluring is estimated 1T clever
thousand cannon, and threo mllor
two hundred thousand rifles.
Fourteen millions OF brick were
ma1o in Nashville last year. Cal
culations based on tho demand fol
the past thrco months estimate iha
soveniy.fvo millions will bo re
quired this season.
A new tcxtile has been found il
Humboldt Valley, Nevada, said t,
possess many advantages owe
hemp, has stronger and finer fl
bro, less wood, and can bo separa
ted without preparation. lmme
date measures arc TO be taken TO
its cultivation.
A new Arctic expedition was l.
leave Copenhagen, Denmark, dur
ing April, for tho purpose OF OK
ploring tho unknown interior O
Greenland, Tho expedition
wholly at private expense, and
to bc conducted by Mr.. Edwarv
Whimper, of Alpinc celebrity.
Orders have boon received q
the United States Armory q
Springfield, Mass, for a large i'm
mediate increase in the production
ofbreech leaders Of tho latest mod
el. The force OF workmen will b
greatly enlarged, and old muskct
remodeled at tho rate of 500 or 60
per day.
There will be no reduction, bu
probably an increase, OF the publ
debt, during the next two orthrc
months, The semi annual interes
falling due in May, June and July
will absorb all the receipts of th
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