Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-13
News of rhe Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
1885, raFEE - nw =
THERE are eighteen public schools at
Louisville. ia ks
sTHE game of euchre Is coming into FASH
ion in England.
GUsTAvE poRE is only thirty-f four years
old. -efE1 I
TIE Hudson river is closed by ice from
Hudson to Castleton.
Hoe cholera prevails in Frederick coun-
ty. Md.
IT is ammo ounced that pencil directions
will hereafter cause letters to be sent to the
Dead Letter Office. g g 3 = AisA49
A WOMAN named Kenny was burned to
death in Baltimore on Saturday evening,
by her clothes catching fire from a stove.
Mr.. J. c. BALDWIN, of Orange, NJ, has
given $4,000 to Hamilton College to aid
'tneedy and pious" students.
AT Bangor, Me-, on Sunday last, the mer-
curry fell, in the course of twenty-four
hours, from fifty degrees to zero.
IT is said that $4,000 worth of kid gloves
were sold for wear at the Dickens readings
in Boston.
AREAsoN why young ladies should avoid
Rilualism-it makes them fast and cross
withal.-Punch. - .,., 49,. ,, .s.-..-...,.-.
A MAN who was sweeping the street in
New York, as the forfeit of an election
bet, was arrested for disorderly behavior.
ONE of the delegates to the Virginia
Convention is absent from his seat-he is
in Jail for horse stealing. ~ EFT = 3
SIMEON PECK, woman-murderer, has
been pronounced insane by physicians of
Coleraine, Mass. $ e' =nfti199 - ~ f-
LOUIS ). JENN1NGs' book on "Eighty
Years of Republican Government in the
United States is conservative in tone.
Own nine thousand dollars have been
paid by the State of Wisconsin since last
Aprilfor wolf scalps, lynx and wildcat
bounties. Hs @sta7 sfT s-ss'is % '.is
KANKAKEE COUNTY, ILL, is having hy-
drephobia panic. A citizen died there of
that disease recently.
"YANKEE RoBINsoN,n Snowman, has gone
into bankruptcy at the end of an unsuc-
cessful campaign in Ghica GO; liabilities
$4,000.
GEN. JuBAL Early is living peacefully at
Drummondvflle. little Canadian village
near Niagara Falls.
ROBINSON CRUsoE has been put on the
French stage, and the Austrian Archduke,
L,uis Victor, and the Prince and Princess
NJ .tternich have been to see it.
On Wednesday last shooting ARRAY,
attended with fatal results, took place in
front of the New York Fifth Avenue Ope-
ra House, between Sam and Tom Sharpley
and one Allison, of the Theater Comique,
on one side, and Kelly 6 Icons minstrels,
on the other. 1t appears that while Kelly
and Leon were coming out from the matt
nee at the Fifth Avenue Opera House,
Sam Sharpley stepped up, and, accosting
Leon, asked him il he had circulated a re-
port to=the effect that he (Sharpley) was
bankrupt. Leon denied that he had done
30, when ShaEpley cried, You lie," and
struck him, which was the signal for gen.
eral melee. Kellyswas knocked down, and
shots. Both shots took effect in the body
OF Tom Shrpley, one penetrating his
heart, killing him instantly. In a few
minutes Sam Sharpley fired at Kelly, and
the ball took effect in the back part OF the .
head, and lodged near the left eye. The
party was arrested. & an ~ ~
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Tue grand jury at Springfield, Ohio, have
found indictments against Charles Scott
and Henry c. Roberts, as principals in the
murder of Mr.. Hertzler, and against Har-
veyiD. Pape and Joseph Warren as ac-
cessories. The latter is a saloon keeper,
in Springfield, and never left the CITY,
he was arrested on suspicion only last
week. ,sarr. I. s--,s
TIE Athens. Messenger says: The contract
for excavation for the Lunatic Asylum at
this isplace was awarded to Mr.. Jared Maris,
OF Athens, and Judge Macaboy, of Meigs
county. The work amounts to above twelve
thousand yards, and the price is sixteen
and half cents yard; which NAV be
considered low price for it.
The Ne,oark American says: On Wednes-
DAY OF last week, Augustus Mosier. living
In East Newark, lost child under the fol-
lowing circumstances: Mrs. M. left her
little one, year and half old, playing
upon the floor, and had not been absent
but a moment or two when she was called
back by the piercing screams of her loved
one. 1t appears that the child had gone
to the stove, and somehow set fire to its
dress, and instantly the whole body was
enveloped in flame, and before the fire
could be extinguished, fatal injuries were
sustained.
TIE, ,Gauipolis oarnal says Quite little
excitement occurred in the village of Ches.
hire, the other day, by the appearance of a
veritable "bear." openly traversinp the
streets in broad daylight. Several shots
were fired at it without effect. At length
as bruin was mounting fence, Andrew
Zine closed in with him, in a hand to nav
encounter, and with the assistance of some
bystanders,. captured Mr.. Bear. He proves
to be cub, apparently less than year old,
about half grown, that had been chased
from the mountains on the Virginia side.
and had swan the river.
The Hamilton Telegraph says: Last Sat-
urday, large gray eagle was killed, few
miles north of this city, on the Four Mile
Creek, by Mr.. Dan Longfellow. The
"proud bird" measured, from the tip of one
wing to the tip of the other, seven and
half feet. It is very large specimen. and
as rare a ith large. It was seen flying
about the neighborhood some ten days pre-
vious to the day on which it was shot. Mr..