Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-21
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
134.
rsTwo-THIRDs OF the teachers in the Uni
ted States are women. ssrsss.E.7 assn.
THE Paris Conservatory has bought the
flute or Frederick the Great for its Mu-
scum.
= The Quaker City Spectators, it it said,
lost $4,000 by their venture. ERB,tsE
HALF of the dress circle at the alveston
theatre, Texas, is reserved for freedmen.
MILO A. HoLcoMB. a wealthy resident
of Burlington, Ct. hung himself on Sun
day.
CWARDEN, RICE, of the Thomsston (Me-)
State Prison, owns a chair 226 years OLD
JOHN BRowN's son has just been placed In
an Ohio lunatic asylum.
A YOUNG man is on trial in Wisconsin,
who murdered his father last April and
buried the body.
: THr Rowland family. of New Bedford,
has furnished Mayors for the city fourteen
out of twenty years of its incorporation.
RICHMOND; Indiana, has cooperative
grocery successful enough to pay quar-
terly dividend of four per cent.
AFARMER at D.s Moines, Iowa, recently
discovered ten, thousand dollars, which
some one had buried on his farm
THERE Is a-large emigration of despon-
dent Southeraers from Georgia and Ala
bama to the Western States.
The British steamer Genkai was wrecked
N the recent ty phoon at Hong Kong, and
II lives were lost. g 5fs- ~a'r-ffa OFT
TIE Delaware and Hudson canal says a
Scranton despatch is frozen, and 10000 tons
of coal, in transit are stopped by the ice.
2 EpwARp W. JoHNsroN. Edgar Ames, DR..
w. S. Adreon and Robert S. King, who
were among the most prominent citizens of
St. Louis, all died on the 9th inst.
,6ALApY OF. more wealth than culture ap-
piled at a bookstore recently for Dickens.
novel, '.Dayid Copperhead. ."'i-Boston Tran
AN OK was found deal in his stall at Stur-
bridge. Mass, the other night, with knit
ting needle driven entirely through his
heart.
Iris said that OF the one hundred and
thirty convicts OF the State Prison of New
Hampshire. nearly fifty served insthe re-
cent war. ..,,g.-3-i -
M. De KERATRY's work, entitled 1.-THE
Emperor Maxim:lian: His Rise and FALL"
has appeared at Leipsic, hut has been
stopped on the French frontier. Fea
Two women in Chicago got into a fight
because one OF them called the other ''pe-
destrian." The indignant woman declared
that she had always beer respectable.
STATE NEWS.
OHIo has 12 625,39I acres of improved
land in farms: 7,S46,747 acres of unim-
proved i'm farms; 5,104,629 acres of wild
land; 179,ss9 farms, which average ia
acres to the farm. h
On last Monday lad fourteen years of
age, named Amos Edwards, who lives
with Henry Waymire. in Butler township,
went OUT in the fields, in company with
two other lads of about his age, with a
rifle, to hunt for rabbits. 1t appears that
while young Edwards was examining /
shock of corn-fodder for rabbit, the rifle.
in the hands of one of his companions, was
discharged, and the ball struck your Ell
wards at the temple, fracturing, but not
entering the skull. So says the Dayton
Journal. G*J Ehl ~ ( . +
A SAD accident occurred last Thursday
morning at Yelverton. says the Kenton
Democrat, to Mr.. Chas. J. Harris. an en-
ploye of the C. D. & E. Railroad Company.
Mr. Harris was endeavoring to couple some
freight cars at the time. when his foot
slipped and he fell, the left arm resting on
the track, four cars passing over his arm
before he was rescued He was brought to
Kenton,s and the arm amputated by Drs.
Leighton and Munson. He is a young man
without family, yet is dependent on his
daily labor for support.
THE 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry are
talking of having reunion at Delaware
shortly. The 4th Ohio was organized in
April, 1861, and was composed of the first
companies organized for the war in the
following places: Canton, one company;
Wooster, one company; Mt. Vernon. two
companies Delaware, two companies;
Marion, two companies Kenton, two COM
panies. d3G &e I 1881
The fire which devoured so much valu-
able property on last Tuesday, says the Cir
cleuille Union, is said to have originated in
the garret of Mr.. Jerome Wolfey's saloon
: building. It had got under considerable
Z headway before it was discovered, and be-
: fore the engines could get to work the en-
tire roof, not only of the saloon but of Sic
bert's gun shop, Thrones meat shop, Mil
ler's book store and j. l.. Kings grocery.
was on fire. The snow, which lay on these
roofs kept the fire from spreading as rap
idly as it otherwise would have done, and
by skillful and Industrious working of all
the engines the flames were at length stay
ed-not however until the roofs of all the
buildings were entirely consumed and the
upper stories very much damaged. The
losses to various parties are quite severe.
WE chronicle this week the death of Mrs.
Charity Baughart, of Circleville, says the
Union, aged eighty-seven years, eight
months and twenty-seven days. Thus one
by one our old citizens are passing away.
- 0ff THAT'S So.
The Neo York Herald, which has been
one of the most vigorous blowers and
strikers for General GRANT as the Peoples
candidate for the Presidency, in comment
ing on his letter to the President, protest.