Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-17
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EVILS OF BAD LITERATURE "A youth
employed as a milkman at Belper, in Der
byshire, England, has, without any appar-
ent motive, attempted to murder an old
housekeeper, under the influence of long
course of stories about Dick Turpin and
Jack Sheppard. This is Tar from the first
time that similar results have followed
from the same kind of reading. CouryOis-'
ier attributed his assassination of Lord
William Russell to state of morbid SYM
pathy with crime induced by the perusal
of the then popular romance of '.Jack
Sheppard;" and the annals of the police
since then furnish many other instances.
Mr.. Aims worth (who of course though of
writing nothing more than amusing fic-
tions) has been unfortunate in having pop
ularized, and invested with a halo of ro-
nance, two ssuch scoupdrels as Sheppard
and Turpin.
RELICS OF THE PAsT.-Upon lifting one
of,the flooring deals in an ole house about
to be pulled down and rebuilt at Linlith-
Cow, Scotland, paintings of a remarkable
kind were discovered on the under side OF
the floor and across the oaken joists. The
names of Lord Fleming" ''Erle Demaz,"
"Lord Letoun," Erie de Argyle" &c,
have been found apparently in connection
with their coat of arms. The house whose
walls are above four feet in thickness, is
said to have been great resort of the no.
bility in the time of Queen Mary and ira
dition has it that each nobleman sat under
his coat of arms before proceeding to the
palace. ~
RAILWAY D1sAsTERs.-There is cold
blooded style about the London Spectator s
expectations thus: ''The season for railway
accidents has again commenced, and will
probably last as usual til the end of the
autumn. Our daily contemporaries this
week lave had their columns filled with
them. The cure however is in our hands.
1 .crhar Il in oil
cases ofinJulies. Companies then will soon
find that it is cheaper in the long run to
keep up proper staff of servants and good
roolihg stock and permanent way than to
pay for compensation
AN ANCIENT FoREsT.-In the course of
excavations at Hull, England, the navies
have come upon a stratum of dark soil, in
which a number of trees in horizontal po-
sition were met with. They are oak, in
excellent condition, and remarkably hard
Besides those interesting remains OF long
time ago, large number of acorns aud
hazel nuts were found, and some oyster
and mussel shells. The discovery is more
interesting to geologistS, as the trees were
found at depth of about 10 feet below the
water line OF the river 5l ~
GooD FoRTuNE.-A poor man in Pres
ton, England has received a legacy OF a
very gratifying character. For seven or
eight years he has been pauper on the
sick list. and about year ago, when his
wife died, he broke up his house and was
sent to the Preston workhouse, where ht
was maintained up to a recent period
when he received an intimation that for
tune had been lett him. The. sum h
will receive amounts to $4,000. 1t ha
been left to him by female relative il
Wales. 7l-a. -t
UNJUST WEIGHTs.-On the 18th of Au
gust the justices of the Tower Hamlets
! London, fined fifty-eight tradesmen for th
use of false scales, weights and measures
| The list embraced eight licensed victual
| lers, two beer retailers, twelve chambers
| seven butchers, four coal dealers, sever
| green grocers, ten tobacconists, one baker
| one pork butcher, one corn and flour deal
| er, one cheese monger, two grocers, one oil
| man and one person keeping stall for tn
| sale of fish.
| COSTLY OBsTINACY-There are two mel
in prison in England whose fate it has bee
/ to illustrate the nature of lawyers bills o.
| magnificent scale. P. Foster, a farmer
1 now lies in Taunton Jail for non-paymen
1 of church rate amounting to the sum G
/ las. 7311. But the costs of the law pro
ceedings bv which he was condemne
amount to 8147 les. 914d.; J. B. Grant
| immured in Whitecross Street Prison fo
! non-payment of 81 13s. church rate
coupled with 9257 cost.