Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-28

GOLD closed IN New L ork yesterday at
l4S9ff: 40 EzeY WEM .Yayyosoas s.s
CAPTAIN GENERAL MANzANo, of Cuba, is
seriously i'll. = -.rr--- .----- :.
LAMARTINR has returned to Paris, his
health being much improved by his Swiss
tour.
DURING the past eight years. twenty-five
travellers and eleven guides have been
killed in climbing the Alps. ....,o..,. ~
Rev. HENRY WARD BEEcHER has re-
turned from his summer vacation, and re-
sumed his discourses In Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn. 49,. -
IT has been demonstrated in Chicago that
a comfortable home for poor man can be
built for $3.50. s2 fs'@ -=2ssft
A MAN who died recently at Railway, n.
j., is said to have spent within a few years
$4,000 in drinking.
WILD pigeons are reported to be unusu-
ally abundant among the mountains in
Pennsylvania. oiias saii9 fgT5
A NEW YORKER writes to the papers to
complain that "affectionate couples en-
brace In the public parks" +1ft519
Gov. ORR, of South Carolina, allows
convicts in the State prison. who behave
well, to lay aside their parti-colored garb
and dress like other people. -3G
TaE contractors of the Union Pacific
railroad have applied to-day to General
Smith for additional troops, or work would
stop, owing to Indian depredations. Gen
eral Smith replied that he had no troops to
spare.
THE death of MIR. Violins, the chief wine
merchant of England, is announced. He
was a sportsman; never had but one sort OF
wine in his cellar; never kept clerk; nev-
er sent in bill !; never was in London, and
never rode on railway.
1T is runored that the Chicago Times is
about to change editors and proprietors-
that Mr. Shehan, now one of the editors of
the Tribune, is to be the editor of the Times
and that Mr.. Storey is about to buy a
controlling interest in the Neac York World.
PRESIDENT JUAREz has written letter
to Porfirio Diaz. stating that, in obedience
to the urgent wish of the people, he will
consent to the use of his name in the ensu-
have preferred to retire to private life.
A WESTERN New York paper wants the
ladies to play base ball, maintaining that it
Is '.worth twice as much as this insipid,
Amanda-Arabella game called 'Crow-K,'
which is nothing buta mighty poor kind Of
billiards on the grass"
TIE Boston Transcript says that citizen
of Derby, Conn.,, laid out with flowers, &C.,
in his parlors, the "corpse" of a deceased
poodle dog, going so far as to procure
child's coffin therefor, and to transport it
TO New Haven for burial in New Haven
Cemetery.
By returns made to the United States
Assessor, it appears that the private banks
of Chicago hold an aggregate of S5500,000.
Add to this the deposits in the National
Banks, as shown on the first of July, and
a.. the entire bank deposits of Chicago foot
up seventeen to eighteen millions.
TIES were piled upon the track OF the
. Vermont Central Railroad, near Alburgh,
four times, on Tuesday, the 18th, for the
purpose of throwing off the trains, but
were discovered in season to prevent acei-
dent each time. The perpetrators an old
man and woman and boy, were caught in
the act the last time and arrested. r.fr
THE following conversation occurred be-
tween graceiess boy and his teacher ::
"What does your father do when he sits
down at the table?'' ssHe asks for the
brandy bottle.n 81 don't mean that. Well,
then, what does your mother do when you
sit down at the table ?' ''She says she will
wiring our neeks If we spill any, grease on
the foor.'' M i ufo
A MAN was killed in Montreal on Mon
day morning by being run over by 9 train
on the railroad. A little child who was
sitting on the track at the time was liter
ally cut to pieces. Four men weresblown
up on st. Helen's Island, on the ST. Law.
renee, on the same morEing. One of them
was mortally, another seriously wounded.
AN apple tree in the garden of varnnm
Wilcox, near the depot at East Greenwich,
r. L, may be seen bearing two crops of
apples. About the first crop there is moth
ing unusual. The second blooming was
about the first of August, and the apples
rom that blooming are now about one
bird grown. Within few rods OF this
'rse there is an apple tree in full bloom.