Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-09
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
145. Nl ieh.}a
YALE CoLLRes has post office to itself.
GENERAL. McCLxLLAN arrived In Paris a
few weeks since, and has taken passage for
New York for the first week in November.
Four HUNDRED bushels of cranberries
were gathered on the first inst, from q
single m&sh in the vicinity of Erie, Penn
sylvania. pas
A LOT forty feet front by one hundrad
: and ten feet deep was sold in Chicago last
week for $4,000, or $1,000 per foot, the
highest price ever paid in that city for real
estate.
The passenger oars on the railway from
st. Petersburg to Moscow are two stories
high, the upper story being used for Sleep
ing at night. -
THE American balloonists are In the SER
vice of the Brazilian Government. On one
occasion they remained up for forty-eight
hours reporting movements of the
enemy. .ss5so hsasii7saa,sa
An organ grinder at Norwich, Connec-
ticut displays on the sides, of his instruy
meht, neatly framed, divorce from his
wife, a letter of dismissal from church,
and recommendation of character.
A LIQUOR saloon in Nashville, Tennes-
see, employs hack to carry off its custom
ers as fast as they become intoxicated. No
fare is required. and the happy beings are
insured against arrest. -
'THE Ne,o Orleans Commercial Bulletin
states that out of the sixty workmen en-
gagged in laying the Nicolson pavement,
covering the wood blocks with, tar, on St.
Charles street, in that city, not one has
been attacked with yellow fever
IT is somewhat curious fact that the
author of the Bankrupt bill, the Hon. Thos.
Jenckes. of Rhode Island, was one of the
first applicants for its benefit in his State.
The failure is disastrous and said to be
heavy.
The Springfield (Massachusetts) RepubH-
can asks: Have we haseesh-eaters among
us?, The question must be answered af-
firmatively. Some of our young men who
do not find ordinary narcotics sufficiently
baneful are chewing that bitter root good
deal. lp1
SEVERAL plantations in the neighbor-
hood of Natchitoches, Louisiana, have been
worked this year exclusively by Chinese
coolies. The Times, of that place, in speak
ing of the experiment.. says sthey have
been found sadly wanting-utterly unfit
for the cultivation of our SOIL" 1t repre-
sents them as lazy, stubborn, dishonestand
treaehofous. a III
A WRITER in the Vicksbus9 Times says
that if process can be invented by which
sweet potatoes can be cut into slices and
dried, that crop in the South would soon be
merly was. Here is field for scientific
experiment. The inventor of the desired
process would find himself q millionaire as
soon as it was found to be practicable be-
yond doubt.
THE London Telegraph says: "The rivalry
between. North and south, not only as re-
CARDS race horses, but also as regards spe-
cial products, or even literature, is rapidly
disappearing. The very dialects of York
shire and Somersetshire are in course of as
similation to each other through the mighty
invention of Stephenson. S<@f Tx
THE sentence of the prisoners at Quere-
tiro, Mexico, and were condemned to,
death, have been commuted to terms Of
imprisonment at hard labor, viz: Cassan-
oya, Is years; Escobar, 15;s Valdez, Il
Reyes, q; Monterde, z; Moret, q; Liceage,
7;Prfnce Salm Salm, z; Diaz, 6; Redonet,
6 Preto, 6; Ramirez, A; Othon, 4; Calvo,
2; Herreray Lozada, 2.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the EouisriIe Cour-
Ter tells how, at the recent election for
magistrates in Memphis, some poor, freed
men were tricked out of their votes by
wag, who told the negroes who were in
quiring where to deposit their ballots, to
put them in the letter box on lamp-post,
which a large number did, and departed
with great glee.
THE election in Colorado last month re-
suited IN the choice of Oemocatic Council
and Republican House. The Council
will stand: Democrats, z; Republicans, 6.
The House will stand: Republicans, IA;
Democrats, u. The State question ren--
tered largely into the contest, and the re-
Suits, IN the Council, State men, 4 anti
State men, 8; in the House, State men, 8;
anti-State men, IL.
The Hon. John S. Pendleton, of Virginia,
who was lately arrested and held to bail on
the charge of having illegally attempted to
register, has addressed a communication to-
General Schofeld, asking an investigation
by him of the facts of the case. Mr.. Pendle-s
ton admits that he voted fer the ratification
of the ordinance of secession, but denies
that his vote brought him within the scope
of the instructions from headquarters.
THE State Convention of the eolored
benevolent societies of Kentucky met at
Uexingtou on Saturday, and were address, .
ed by Gen. Brisbin and John, p. Breckin-s
ridge. Resolutions favoringea union on
the basis of equalorights for colored men
were agreed to-. "A constitution was adopt
Ell and officers for the ensuing year were
eIecteds John r. Breekinridge being chosen
President s3%a.t<s IA ;. ;.A3st -
A FEW nights since the passengers on the
Mary Powell, from New York for Pough-
keepsie, were shocked by the sight of one
of the passengers, young man, suffering
from that terrible malady, hydrophobia.
The young man lives near Poughkeepsie.
Seventeen years ago he was bit by rabid J.,
dog, and since that time he has been sub
iect to frequent paroxysms OF the disease.
The attacks generally last for an hour or
so, with paroxysms of two or three min
utes' duration each, and during which the
GIRO, ofh ~ four or five men is necessary