Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-16
News of the Day.

GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
14O16.
Boston has the mosquito plague as bad
ly as New York.
UNION prayer-meetings are now held on
Sunday evenings in Staunton, Va. e
THERE are over six hundred visitors at
the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, Va.
"A LARGE free bathing house has been
opened in st. Louis.
IT is said that Mr.. Beecher's ssNorwood"
is to be dramatized for the stage. &.
"A GERMAN theater is established at Coun-
ell Bluffs, Iowa. sft
A CAVE greater than the Kentucky Mann
moth cave is reported in Sout hern Illinois.
The cholera is increasing among the
freedmen in some of the Louisiana parish
eS. -
PUNCH gives as motto for an Arab tribe
up and Bedouin.
Ex-GovERNoR MAGoFFIN has been elect
ed to the Kentucky Legislature.
Mr.. EMMANUEL CANALLo, Chilian Minis
ter to Belgium, died suddenly at Com
piegne, on the 10Th ult.
FTTz GREENE HALLEcK, the poet, is living
In Guilford, Conn. He is in good health
and the full enjoyment of his mental facul-
ties. s'5Aa4
A NEW Sunday paper, called the "Home
Circle" has been started in Washington,
d. c..
GEN. MEADE was given complimentary
supper by the proprietors of the Stetson
House, at Long Branch. on Wednesday
night.
WORK is steadily progressing on the
South Congregational Church in New Brit
ain, Ct, one of the finest architectural edi-
fees in New England.
STATE NEWS.
OK the 18th ult., Mr.. Thos. McComas, of
Monroe county, committed suicide by hang
ing himself.
THERE are seven individuals in Atwater,
Portage county, whose united ages are COS
years. | e
On Saturday night, James Barton, lying
drunk on the track of the A. & G. w. Rail-
road near Mansfield, was struck and killed
by the 10 o'clock freight bound west.
TIE Stark County Republican says: Bees
have done remarkably well this year.
Their owners, in getting twenty-five cents
per pound for the honey, also do very well.
TIE ZGnesvtNe City Times says: The wool
clip of Muskingum county the present year
is estimated at 100000 pounds, which will
pay the growers about $4,000. 1t is
thought about $4,000 pounds remain yet
unsold. Prices remain at about the same
as last week-fifty cents for the best quail
ity.
The same paper says: Mr.. Green, of
Duncan Falls, in this county, On the 10th
day of April last, by way of experiment,
sowed small lot of Odessa spring wheat,
and on the 18th of July, three months and
five days, cut 1t and found it well matured,
with, round, sound and plump grain, yield
ing at the rate of eighteen bushels to the
acre. The quick growth, fair yield and
good quality of this kind of wheat. should
make it well worthy the attention of our
farmers.
JOHN HOWELL and Charles Hill, who
have been extensively engaged in confis-
eating horses in Eastern Ohio and
Western Pennsylvania, for few months
past, were gobbled up by Sheriff Laird and
his assistants, on Saturday last, and lodged
in Jail. They were arrested about twelve
miles northwest of Pennington, where
they had for some days made head quar-
ters; they had in their possession two fine
horses, no doabt stolen. On Sunday,
d. Robinson, of Columbiana who four
weeks since was victimized out of horse,
buggy and harness by the scoundrels, had
q warrant served on them at this place, to
take them to Columbiana county, for trial.
We hope they will receive their deserts.
There are quite number of these Williams
still at large in this vicinity; almost every
day we hear of some one who has lost a
horse; but day or two since, A. J. Squires
of Hiram, lost fine horse for which he
offers 500 reward. 1fi