The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-01-03
NEWS on THE WEEK.

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About thirty thousand British troops
are now stationed IN Ireland, chiefly
in the southern counties.
Daring the week ending last Satur.
day, 4O4 emigrants passed through
Colunbus, 2O2 Of whom will settle in
Ohio.
General Sherman is reported to be
10 Washiogton. Minister Campboil is
said to be on his way to join President
Juarcs. aa -
a correspondent Of tho Eaton Reg.
lister is cut for r'Gen. Granville Moody
ss the coming Republican candidate
for Governor Of Ohio.
Major General J.. J. Reynolds has
been appointed to command the Mill
tary district Of the Rio Grande, in
place Of General Sedgwick. q
A now oil well in Noble county, 425
foot deep, will yield 25 barrels pcr
day. This is tho first well on Duck
Greek which has been suuk deeper
than ESQ feet.
A boy six years old, named Heath,
was so severely bitten in the throat by
shorsc. in Thotfcrd, VI, on tho 9th
inst, that he died in few hours.
A Washington dispatch Of Satur-
day. says Tho Potomac is wholly
frozen over Thousands Of persons
have been on tho ice all day, an unus.
ual spectacle here.
It is expected that surratt will lreach
this country about the goth inst, and
his trial will take place at the Febrn.
ary term Of the Washington Criminal
Court.
The Fayette County Herald reports
. death from cholera in that county (,
few days ago. The man who died had
just returned from Cincinnati, and W.;
taken sick on the way.
Mr.. chilcot, Republican. has brough
an action for damages against Govern
or Cummings, Of Colorado, in the sun
Of $4,000, for refusing him certifi
cate Of election as delegate 10 Con
gross. i'' -a
Bumgardnot, tho murderer Of Eu
bank, in Washington county, has beer
sentenced to be hung on tho 18th o
February. He protests that he is in
nocent OF the murder, but thore i
said 10 bo no doubt Of his guilt. ~.
@seen Victoria son, Duke of Ed
inburg, has accepted Bennott's chal
lcnge; and the Honrietta and the Duke
yacht Viking arc to have race aroun
the Isle Of Wight--next summer, 8
the dispatches say.
A butcher named Vanah has bee
arrested in Jersey City for haviD
butchercd a horse, cutting up tho cal
cass, md after putting into brine, sel
ing tho Same as corned boef. Th
legs were to DO used for the manufat
ture Of Bologna sausages.
The cattle plague, which is almo'
thoroughly eradicated from EnsanC
is announced ne increasing In Hollnn'
whore, during tho week ending No
18th, 1866, animals were attacked, an
during the subsequent week endin
tho Gath, 3,257 were attached.
The Investigating Committee, ii
said, have fonnd tho frauds on tho re-
cuao in Philadelphia quite as great
in New York. The ycommittae wi
visit the Western cities Immediately
Mr. William Strachan, of NowbT
has in his possession mannscriI
copy Of part OF History Of lRomaI
ism, written by John Ii Surratt. q!
the time Of tho asssss,naton OF Pres
dent Lincoln, this manuscript WI
seized among the other papers Of Sn
raft, and secured by Mr.. Robert Str
chan, Photographic reporter in Il
Judge Advocates Court, Surratt W
engaged upon the pious work whi
plottiag against the life Of the Pros
don't.
The Democratic Convention Of Fran
lin County met at Columbus on SGtu
day, and recommended Judge Thu
man for Cove rnor; and resolved lh
the Democratic State Convention {
the 9th OF January, should "adopt
reSolution requesting tho Legislatu
TO submit to the people, at tho next a
nual election, the question of strikiI
tho word "white" from the Conslit
tion Of Ohio, in order that thore m,
no longer be doubt M to how I
people Of Ohio are affected upon I
proposition Of negro voting we d
clare that wO will hereafter, as herol
fOrc, always oppose the proposition