Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-15
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

fETFfFrTs sGENERAL NEWS. F4-rr7--s
GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
140A.
A SERVANT girl, named Ann Berner, re-
ceived fatal injuries at St. Louis on We'd
nesday evening, from, the explosion OF
coal oil lamp, which she was filing.
In Quakertown, Pa, recently, a vicious
horse seized a boy by the head, and with
such a sudden jerk as to lislocate the lads
neck, and kill him. ,s rest. ~
A BOZ named Henry Gondule was killed
last week at Ottawa, Illinois, by being
struck with q base ball in the groin, which
caused an internal rupture.
Gov. SWAMI, Ex-Governor Pratt and
Messrs. Pinckney, White and Crisield are
candidates to succeed Hon. Reverdy john
son In the Maryland Senatorship.
The Iowa City First National Bank re-
Gently, paid $4,000 for a bag Of brass and
copper filings, under the impression that it
was gold dust. 81, $1,000.
A NEW secret society has been established
In Michigan, called :" The Order of the Sa-
cred Temple" It's object IS said to be the
moral anu lnCeiIeCCuot tmptoVOth0hoo VI W.
man. Only females are admitted.
UNAppRoPR1ATED funds to the amount of
$I,5000 600 are in the Missouri Treasury, and
tho State politicians, who are anxious to
spend the money, want an extra session OF
the Legislature for the purpose
Snow tell quite plentifully in Northern
Vermont on Tuesday night. At Roxbury,
on the Vermont Central Railroad, It was
thresinches deep on Wednesday morning,
and at Rouse's Point, New York, twelve
inches. a-u- ~ - st I'D o,a u ~
A FOOT race for distance of fifteen
miles took place in Washington on the 9TH
inst, between a secretary of the Russian
Legation and clerk in the Navy DEPART
ment. The latter won the race and the
former lost dinner. ..-..--
TIE Ne,o Haven Palladium contrasts the
of Miss Kellogg in London with
that of the sister of Mrs. Siddons in Hart
fordyears ago. That lady was arrested,
and allowed as great kindness to leave
the city without being shut up in Jail as
vagrant.
DURING the month of August, in St.
Louis, there were 1,l64 deaths from diar-
rheal diseases, of which 49, are reported as
Asiatic cholera. The months of September
and October, of which we have seen no re-
port are said to have been even more I'M
favorable as regards cholera, than August.
The festival OF All Saints was celebrated
with peculiar solemnitv by the Catholic
portion of New Orleans on Friday last.
The city cars and other conveyances were
iammed all day carrying persons to and
from the cemeteries and graveyards of the
city and suburbs. saH ~a-ssv
SOME person unknown kindled 9 fire in
the District Attorneys Office at Washing
ton on weuucsa.y---~ru direccfy7 DC
meath case contaiai ng the important pa
pers used In the Surratt trial. The fire
was fortunately discovered and Distinguish
ed before any serious damage was done.
FouR parties, each consisting of nine
persons, had a wood-sawing match at La
fayette, Indiana, last Satur day, every man
to saw q cord. The thirty six went at the
work with will, and the winners finished
their job In three hours and ten minutes.
The event was the means of raising about
500 for benevolent society.
FROM the members of Congress who
have been In Washington recently, and
others who are now in the city, it appears
that there is strong probability that the
tax on cotton will be repealed shortly af-
ter Congress convenes. The pressure in
favor OF the repeal in all directions of the
North, from influential citizens, is almost
irresistible.
A BosroN paper relates that Miss Anna
Dickinson, while on board the schoolship
in Boston Harbor, on Sunday, after writing
her own name in the visitors autograph
book, turned to the signature Of President
johnson and deliberately erased 1t. Capt.
Matthews, on returning OH board and learn
ing the fact added opposite to the erased
Johnson's name, that it bad been done by
Anna Dickinson.
UMBRKLLAs have from time immemorial
been regarded as a sort of public property
so public, indeed, that the theft of them
seems seldom to be attended with remorse,
and the instances are rare in which the Of
fender has resorted to restitution as means
of soothing his reused conscience. An
English paper, however, tells of a person
who had lost an umbrella, who found 1t
few DAYS afterwards in conspicuous place
on his premises, with the following in
ecription pinned upon it: "This umbrallar
has prade hon my konshens ever sin
stole him. w. r.
In making some alterations in the
grounds of the Lycee Napoleon, Paris, the
workmen came upon pile of gold coins of
the Roman empire, which turn out to be of
great value. There were S25 coins in all,
one of which-a Traian coin, containing
portrait of Augustus in the corner, is val
ued at 10000 francs. In age they range
from Nero to Severus, and it is believed
theyfwere secreted during the reign of the
latter emperor, possibly by some one inn
plicated in the insurrectionary attempt of
Albinus, or by tax-gatherer, who, as the
custom was, appropriated all the heavier
coins to his own use. The collection has
been placed In the Paris Museum of An
tiquities.
SOME one has written an article in
western paper to show that the firmest
constitution will not endure more than
ten years of journalistic labor on daily
ncwspaper.-E1chdnge Somebody" is
greatly mistaken. We know of at least a
dozen newspaper men who have for more
than ten years labored on daily newspa-
pers, and although some of them are nat
urally Of a delicate physical constitution,
they show no signs of exhaustion or pre-
mature decay. With correct habits, there
is nothing in daily newspaper work of