Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-12
New. of the Day.

News of the Day. . u
GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
'14sH.
Amos REED, Governor of Utah, is in
Washington.
sd'THRnE are eight thousand colored chill
dren in Baltimore. s'eseaa
THERE are 81 news depots and 1900 grog-
cries in Chicago. u rA .l7rW19
WEST VIRGINIA reports the finest grape
crop ever gathered there. gsg i'i'',i
ELsoN, the pedestrian, recently ran five
miles 10 thirty minutes, in Windsor, Nova
Scotia. "a
THE recent assessment of real estate in
Baltimore, amounts to over two hundred
million dollars 'ssH7ttI iaa =
PRiscs MuMo TAU, brother Of the Ty-
coon, has arrived at the Hague, with suite
of thirty persons. 5T2 AsJ]A&
Mr.. IRA ALDRrDaE, soa of the latelcolor-
ed tragedian, IL announced to appear at the
Melbourne Theatre Roya.
A LAGER beer seller in Vienna has been
threatened with prosecution by the police
II he does not increase the size of his
glasses. .sa-i so 2 sisf - s7s'.
THE destruction of the forests is said to
have ruined the coffee plantations at tSinga-
pore.
.TnE walters of London have started
newspaper, called the City Waiters' Proui-
dent Societys Journal. There are eight
thousand walters in the fraternity.
.SrERLIxa Prices life was insured for
80 900. TIE hearse that was used at his
funeral was the same employed to convey
the remainsof Mr.. Lincoln to Springfield.
Tire efforts for the release of DR.. Mudd
have been Initiated by the friends of Spang-
Ter. They think. as the World suggests, that
Spangler is as clear as Mudd.
IN family Bible, in Connecticut. this
record is TO be found Elizabeth Jones,
born on the 20sh of November, 1885, ae-,
cording to the best of her recollection."s sii
Gov. FEsToS has INVITED General Daniel
e. Sickles to visit Albany on the 9th In
slant. General Sheridan will be there on
the same day. <.As *+.ao
THE white and blue uniform Of the Aus
trian troops Is about to be replaced by gray
blouses and loose red trousers, with gray
Ex-REBEL GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON has
resigned the Presidency of the Alabama
and Tennessee River Railroad, from Selma
to Dalton, and his place has been filled by
the election of Franklin 81. Deiand. of New
York. ..-------1..
The water of a lake about sixty miles
from Huston. Texas, is so sour that it can
not be druEk: Analysis shows that it con-
tains iron, alum, magnesia and sulphuric
acid. osiA
B.W. GREEN, who murdered his wife In
Hartford, several years ago, and was acquit--
ted on the grounds of insanity, died at the
private hospital of DIR. Buell., in Litchfield,
yesterday morning. He was about sixty
four years of age, and leaves an estate Of
nearly $4,000.
THEY have way of renovating old figs
in New York. The figs are soaked for .
time in common whisky, which being abb
sorbed by them, causes them to swell and
become quite fresh looking. They are
then carefully pressed or packed into the
neat new boxes, and exposed for sale as
new figs on the street corners. E
AN excursion party is forming in Helena,
Montana, to visit the falls of the Yellow
stone, where it is said the whole volume of
the river is precipitated over precipice
sixtesn hundred feet high, and looses IT.
self IN a lake twenty-five or thirty miles
in circumference, which contains an island
Of several hundred acres area, covered with
boiling springs. ETAS
PRICE OF LAND IN GEoRGIA.-The Au-
g,ssta tGa.) Republican says: "We know
of lands which have produced this year
from ten to fifteen bushels of wheat, and
similar. lands which will produce five hum
dred pounds of seed cotton to the acre,
which can be bought at from seven to ten
dollars per acre. and in localities the
healthiest In the world, where epidemic aud
endemic diseases are unknown"
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sa..- a.. STATE NEWS ssa Il s7fssffgs-
The Cleveland, Ohio, coopers are on
strike to resist reduction of wages.
IRoNroN Aenumer ates 1,027 school chill
dren. srr, ~ ar - Go-iHI 1r' r. ~
The steamer Malta was sunk in the
Muskingum, just below the Windsor lock,
on the 28th ult. The boat was turned over
to the underwriters. Insurance $1,000
all she was worth.
In Ohio divorces are growing very fire.
quent., The Commissioner Of Statistics has
ascertained from the records of Courts the
number of divorces in that State during
the last two years. Taken In connection
with the marriages, they were as follows |:
9nM MiNM~ Marriages. Divorces.
In is6f-5....................22. "a. lbs $50
In 1855. .--.-...Sv,4fS I,ioe
TaKIag the whole together, this shows
one divorce in twenty-six marriages.
THE very fi6e stable, which cost $1,000
or more, on the Craig property. Fourth
street, says the Marietta Register, Oct. 10,
was destroyed by fire, Thursday, 3dsinst,
at about II o'clock A. N. Insurance, $4OO
The fire caught in the shed Of the High
School boilding Immediately adjoining.
There was no wind, and agrain had vet the
roofs Of the surrounding buildings, making
all favorable to prevent the spread Of the
fire.. Thesfremen worked nobly, and saw.
ed the school house, which was on fre-sev-
.eral times at the roof.
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