The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-01-17
OLIPPINCs.

Major Gen. S. R. Curtis died of apo
plexy AT Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the
10Th ult.
The act comforting suffrage on ne
groes in the District of Columbia, has
been officially published.'
The National debt on the 1st Of JAM
nary, 1867, was s2,543, ,OOO, 900, a de-
crease of s6,0O0,000 during Decem-
Der.
Out of twenty seven officOSs and en-
ployees of the Wisconsin Legislature,
twenty were soldiers in the late war.
Mr.. Joseph Cobb of GAINESVILLE, who
is nearly ninety.five years of age
amused himself by skating on the ca
nal in that city one day last month
The municipal election in Chatta-
nooga, Tennessee, on the 9th ut,
resulted in the election OF The whole
Radical ticket by u large majority.
The Dayton Journal says that Day
ton shows the smallest bill of mortal
ity of any city in the whole land-on-
ly about 1870 burials in three months
and half in II population of 10000.
On the 9Th inst, George Graham
was elected President of the Clncin-
cinnati Horticultural Society; VIM.
Stom, Robert Buchanan and J. A.
Warder, Vice Presidents; R. FL. War
der, Secretary, and Robert Clarke,
Treasurer.
The American Consul in Candir con-
firms the reported blowing up of the
monastery at Arkadi by the Cretans,
killing over l, 500 Turks. Loss of the
Christians, in killed and wounded, 1913
men; women and children. 373.
Iowa, alone of all the States, has an
Orphans Home for the children of SOL
diers, in actual operation. About sew
en- hundred children are already cared
for and placed under good and emo
bling influences. THE Home is loca.
ted at Cedar Falls, and is managed
with gratifying success
In his report upon the condition o'
South Carolina, Gen. Sickles relates
that in one case, where a freedman
was murdered, the two men who xii
led him sat upon the coroners jury
and united in the verdict that "the dc
ceased came to his death by causes un
known"
The European Governments are still
arming. France expects To have 45O,
900 needle guns ready for use by May
next. and Russia has ordered one hun
drcd cast steel cannon from the cele
brated works OF Messrs. Knapp, at Els
sen. They are to be paid fourteen
thousand dollars for each Bavaria
too, is aiming, having ordered ninety
SIX rhed cannon from u Bohemial
foundery.
A story is told of Newburypor
voter, at the last municipal election
who received dollar TO vote certain
ticket. Being slightly tuddIed, h,
dropped the greenback into the ballot
box, and crowding the vote into hi
pocket, started off with the impression
that he would "go and take some
thing"
The massacre, by Indians, Of ninety
four United States soldiers, near For
Phil Kearney, is confirmed Col. Ii
B. Darlington, commanJant at tha
post. telegraphs that they were at
tackled near the Fort by three thous
ard Indians. killing Lit Col Fetterman
Capt f. Ii Brown, Lit. Grummond, ant
ninety.onc privates. The bodies, whcI
recovered, were found to bo horIibl.
mutiatcd.
The Boston Post, the leading Demo
cratic paper of New England, in
late issue says:
"We regret to record the defeat O
the Democratic candidate in War,
Three, Mr.. Brown, u most respectabl
colored gentleman. He was tirmI
supported by Democrats and Conser
valives, but the radical element il
that locality severed his political jug
ular without any compunctions what
ever"
Some tough stories como from tn
Gold and Silver regions OF the Rock.
Mountains. In newly discovered dis
lrcts on Snake River, the silver or
is said to yield at the rate of So ,5O
per ton. AT Georgetown, California
Nov. l4th, the miners "wore blockin!
, out nearly pure solid mass of gold
nearly three feet in length Anothe
lump, from WoCdside mine, weighed
one hundred pounds,
The Callettsburg Tribune notice
, that deer pursued by hunters an,
manned, took refuge on the ice float
ing down the Ohio, and was capture,
and killed opposite the mouth Of tn
Big Sandy, On the next day anolhe
. deer, standing proudly erect was aoal
! ing down on sheet OF ice an acre il
, extent, and it was parsued by partic
in skifis and yawls from Catlettsburs
and other parties from South Pom
3 in Ohio The Buckeyes beat the Ker
tucklaps and captured the deer. Thi
1 ast was SUNDAY sport"
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n Brutal Muader.