Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-08
News of the Day.


GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
1889. .W,.,,st. ss.es IT,
J SEVERAL cases of cholera have occurred
in the Insane Asylum at Jacksonville, nli-
nois.
TIE death of DIR. Lensdale, Bishop of
Litchtield, in England, is announced.
ALBERT PIKE, the Arkansas poet, is 60
ing to publish new volume of verses.
MRS. BRINKERHooF is one of the female
orators of Kansas. sos. 70 al
PIERCE and Pendleton are the nominees
OF an Alabama paper for 1868. aaos
ONE of Kossuth's sons is elected to the
Hungarian Parliament. -..rsT T..,f
AN unusual feature in Irish trade is re-
ported in very large export of oats to
France. ~, .-r...-,.
THE Ml,oaukee Sentinel urges that spe-
cial seats be set apart for giggling girls a.
all concerts and operas. ~
SENATOR WILSON has completed history
of the Reconstruction measures. which
will be published in Hartford at an early
day. -ss1 .tU
Mr.. THOMAS B. RUTTER. for many years
Cashier of the Farmers and Planters
Bank OF Baltimore, died last Sunday, aged
seventy-eight.
IT ia stated shat New York firm has
ordered 100000 strawberry boxes for use
in next seasons trade.
The Boston Transcript says, "Henry Ward
Beecher's Norwood has appeared in full in
book form in England, thus anticipating its
completion in the Ne1 York Ledger"
FoUR Governors of Massachusetts died
Sumner, 1893; James Sullivan, 1908; Will
liam Eustis, 1925.
THE small arms mandatory at Placen-
tia, Spain, is working night and day, exc
cutting an order given by. the French Gov
ernment for muskets OF the new pattern.
A WOMAN named Jane McGinness, aged
one hundred years, died at her residence
Boston, on Tuesday last, of old age. She
was born in Ireland, and was never mar
ried.
The State Reform School of New Jersey
was opened last week at Jamesburg. The
site and building cost seveaty-five thou
sand dollars.
THE dog tax of New Albany, Ind- repre-
sents property in four hundred and eleven
dogs, which is said to be almost one dog to
every family.
The new Federal Flag of Germany has
been recognized by France, England, Swe-
den, and Norway, Italy, Austria and Spain.
From the other seafaring powers the like is
shortly expected.
THE AUGUSTA (Ga.) Gtroni Gle says cotton
is no longer a remur erative crop, and in
sists that the cotton planters of Georgia
should set about at once the preparations
of at least one fourth of their best land for
wheat.
Our of the sale of lumber at Machias, Me-,
to the amount of 81, 500, 900, there have been
but three American vessels loaded. Mostly
English and other foreign craft have been
chartered. They take freights lower than
American bottoms can afford.
A CORRESPONDENT says that an intensely
French feeling prevails throughout Lor-
raine and Alsace. Although the inhabi-
tanss are thoroughly German i'm physique
an speak German, yet they feel quite Of
Tended if any one supposes that they are
not French.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Dublin Eue'a-
inJ Mail states that Ireland needs only
tran, utility and education to enable her to
compete successfully with any other ma
tion. 1t appears that the establishment of
the Cork Flax Spinning and Weaving
Company has been successfully accom-
plished. New factories have recently been
raised in Dundalk, Diogheda and Balbrig-
gan. Those who are endeavoring to eX-
tend the manufacturing industry of the
country find the Fenian agitation their
greatest drawback.
The eccentric Baron de Ponnat, who, at
the Peace Congress of Geneva, denounced
Christianity as the cause of all modern
wars, has addressed a letter to several of
the Paris newspapers on the occasion of his
daughters taking the veil. "The Baron
de Ponnat," runs the letter. sis grieved to
have to inform you of the cruel loss that
he has just sustained in the person of his
youngest daughter, Mdlle. Josephine de
Ponnat, whom superstition has buried alive
in the Convent of Contians (Seine), for the
greater glory of God and of the Ladies of
the Holy Heart"
A LETTER from lady in Paris, just re-
ceived, says: "Never will so many Ameri-
cans be in Paris at one moment again; =
and she added, "what deal of money they
leave. L know some New York and West
ern ladies vino have bought such quanti-
ties of laces. Every lady who comes to
Paris must buy a real black lace shawl and
silks. One lady bought twenty thousand
dollars worth of European luxuries, most
ly for presents to friends, and one gentle
man, on his way to his Western home,
takes fifteen trunks filled with laces, silks,
&C."
The favorite driving street of fashionable
New York is now inconveniently obstruct-
ed by building materials above Forty
third street, but the beauty of the struc-
lures going up will more than compensate
tor the temporary annoyance. The archi-
lecture of this end of the avenue will fal
surpass that of the lower end. The gloomy
brown stone is making way for the drat
Dorchester stone and Ohio freestone. The
most noticeable feature of the upper end OF
the avenue will be the new Jewish syna-
gogue on Forty-third street, which is like
ly to be the finest specimen of ecclesiasti-
cal architecture on the avenue
The roof is now going on. The fact