The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-07-25
CLIPPINGS.

There is n report that news has.
been received direct from DR.. Liv.
ingstonc, and that he was alive and
we'll.
A man By the name Of Spencer,
a gardener, died on the evening of
the 10th at the BelleviIle House
Steubcnville, Ohio, of cholera.
In Newburg, and along the Hud
son in its vicinity the price ofbrick
is about 81 per thousand, against
slO.5O in April and May.
The Registration closed in Rich.
mond, on Saturday. The colored
majority is one thousand one hun
dred and nineteen.
A Government order, vitiating
the titles Of all conveyances, con.
cessions, &c, made by the Imperial
Government, has been published in
Mexico.
The family Of Benjamin N. Run
yon, the st. Louis banker who
lately committed suicide, have
received the $4,000 insurance on
his life.
Healy, charged with the murder
of CORY, at Cincinnats, has had a
second trial, (the jury failing to
agree the first time and has been
acquitted.
H@The Court House and county
Offices at Woodsfeld, Monroe coun.
ty were recently destroyed by fire,
the county records being a total
loss.
A resolution was adopted by
the New York Constitutional Con-
vention on Tuesd'ty, TO submit the
question Of female suffrage to the
electors in 1868 or 1869.
For the six months previous 10
the lst instant, q ,47S immigrants
arrived in Columbus, Ohio, en- route
for western homes. The number
tor the same period last year, was
only -, 909.
W. ]. Smithson, of Philadelphia,
and Miss Maggie Z Fornsheil. Of
Wooster, Ohio, we're married in a
balloon, in the air above Pittsburgh,
on Saturday, the 9th instant.
Several failures have recently oc-
Cured in the dry goods trade in
New York, Among them are the
houses of Fairchild & Fanshawe.
LOescbick, Willard & Rhodes and
VIM. Bruner & Co.
In Illinois the Usage orange
hedge is planted, cultivated and
warranted for one year, at thirty
cents rod. In two years it will
keep out all stock, and it is said
(by those who have tried it0to
last five hundred years.
A few days since a man from
Fort Harkel (Kansas), who was on
horseback, and armed with a Spen.
GER rifle and a revolver, was attack.
ed by thirteen Indians. He got
down by tho side OF his horse and
stood them fight, killing four In
dians, and receiving q wound him
self.
The Wisconsin hep-groxers are
almost in despair, under the visi,
tation OF the hop worm which is in.
creasing at fearful rate. The
worm gnaws the main root off at
the base of the vine. A shrivel-
ing of the top Of the vine is the
first indication Of the attack of the
worm.
Pine apes, in Paris, are made
from turnlps, and are said 70 be
delicious. The turnips are sat
urated with an appropriate sirup,
which confectioners know very
vel. how TO manufacture, and the
French journals say the pineapple
"is destined TO become success.
There never was time in our
knowledge when the lumber bust
ness was better on tho Ohio river
than it is at this time. At every
town and village the RATS are un-
loading their contents. The num-
ber of buildings put up on the river
this year exceeds anything known
in past times.
A valuable tract Of coal land in
Putnam county, West Va. half q
mile from the Kanawha River, and
containing $4,000 acres, has just
been sold under q decree Of Court
for about one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre. The land contains
several large veins Of fine coal, ant
lies below the worst shoals on the
river.
There is at The Paris Exhibition
French machine that takes II
chopped tobacco, and turns ou
cigarettes at the rate of sixty
minute the year round, ringing
singal bell as oflen as there ar,
enough to put in a package
These machines, each about half
yard square, will make saving o