The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-05

Roman affairs is TO be held, and
will take place at Munich, on the
llth of December. The Pope has
been opposed to the Conference,
but has withdrawn his objections.
1t is stated that the Alliance
Rolling Mills turning out forty
tons of railroad iron per day, and
the orders received are greater
than the company can fill. The
iron is of a superior quality.
1t is probable that the Ways
and Means Committee will at an
early day, report bills stopping
contraction, and taking away all
discretionary powers, and fixing
special times for tho sale Of gold.
Reports that proposition has
been received from the United
States for the purchase Of the Hud-
sons Bay property, has caused a
rise in the shares of tho company.
Dan Rice (chiehy with the view
of getting his own name in the pa
pers,) offers TO back Weston for
$50, 900 to. walk one hundred
miles in twenty-throe consecutive
hours. - Commercial.
The Geauga Democrat says that
a citizen of that county reports
in this seasons corn crop 20S bush
els Of cars from two acres, the tall
est stalk measuring 123 feet, and
the heaviest car weighing II oun-
ces.
Mr. Chas. Dickens gave his first
reading in Boston Monday night
before u most brilliant audience.
The "Christmas Carroll, 'and "Mr.
Pickwick's Trial, were the pie.
ces rendered on the occasion,
The London Daily News says
of President Johuson :"Ile has de-
libcratcly stecred the ship os state
back again into the storms from
which it was steadily emerging,
and he will deserve his fate if he
is thrown overheard to still the
waves"
The last rail of tho Kansas City
and Cameron Railroad was laid last
Friday, giving Chicago direct
communication with tho Union
Pacific, Missouri Pacific and Mis-
souli River Railroad, and also
with the Kansas City and NcOsho
Valley Railroad.
The Ohio Penitcntiary yields a
net profit of $4,000 to the State
this year in consequence of de-
crease in expenditure under re
publican management. 1t was al.
ways heavy expense to the State
when the democracy were in pow
er.
One hundred and fifty.two emi.
grants arrived at Charleston, s.
c., on Wednesday, by the Bremen
bark Gauss, under the care of the
State Emigration Board. They
met with warm welcome, and
that is a good sign for the State,
and tho South generally.
General Grants order reducing
the force OF the army, will muster
out, on the 1st of January, thirty
staff officers and one hundred and
fifty.two officers Of the Veteran
Reserve Corps, most Of whom are
doing duty in connection with the
Freedmen's Bureau.
Tho Pacific Railroad is now COM
pleted to the base Of the noun
tains, five hundred and twenty-five
miles from Omaha. The section
to the summit will have q grade Of
only eighty feet to the mile, it is
said, which is materially less than
some of the grades on the Pennsyl-
vania roads.
Another earthquake, with vol
canic eruptions occurred on the
18th of November, at the delight
full Island of ST. Thomas for which
Mr.. Seward wants to pay several
millions. The sea rose fifty feet,
and the houses and shipping which
escaped destruction a few weeks
ago, were badly damaged.
An Illinois wool-grower writing
to the N. Y. Tribune says: Tho
business of wool growing is very
much depressed at present. Reduc-
ing present prices to gold, and
wool has not sold go low since
1s45. Relatively to expenses and
taxes, and to the profits of other
products of Agriculture, wool is
undoubtedly lower than ever be-
fore in tho history Of tho country.
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