Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-31

GENERAL NEWS.

1908.
THERE are two daily papers in Nebraska.
ELEVEN of the New York Churches have
boy choirs.
TUE upper slopes Of the White Noun
tains are covered with snow.
GEN. GRANT is at West Point. He ex-
poets to return to Washington early this
week.
ABOUT 5000 persons have died of the yell
low fever in New Orleans.
The value of the Cape Cod cranberry
crop this season is estimated at s500O0O.
A MAN in Montana recently strapgled q
woman, and robbed her of $500 in gold
dust.
S1,250OOO worth of real estate was sold
during September in San Francisco.
The house in which General Zachary
Taylor was born, near Orange Courthouse,
Va, is used as a barn.
ANEaRo man, one hundred and six years
of age, was recently registered in jackson
county, Mississippi.
MARY A. SHAW, of Shrewsbury, Mass, q
married lady of f73 years, committed suicide
last Wednesday.
THE proposed new county from Penob-
scot and Somerset, Me-, will contain twenty
towns, aud be named Sheridan.
OF two hundred students in Yale College
at the beginning of the present century,
ir is stated that only one entered the min
istry.
MILE WILSON, the Swedish rival of Ad-
eiaid Patti, has salary of 100000 francs.
She was peasant girl.
AN American lady correspondent attracts
considerable notice in the reporters gall
lery of the North German Parliament.
IT is stated that Hon. E. B. Washburne,
of Illinois, will be added to the long list OF
lecturers this winter.
SIR FREDERICK BRUCEs final resting
place is in Dumferline Abbey, so famousin
old Scottish ballad lore.
A JAR containing one thousand silver
coins, supposed to be of the reign of Ed
ward THAT is, six hundred ears old-was
ls.ely found in sewer in Aberdeen, Scoi'
lund.
GARIBALp1 has five grandchildren living
with him at Caprera, named respectively
Mameli, Anzani, Lincoln, Arieta and John
Brown.
A DETROIT paper has been sufficiently
wanting in humanity and decency to make
fun out of the ravages of the yellow fever
in New Orleans.
A CLERGYMAN of the English Church, in
Jamaica, attracts attention by driving to
church in ssmonkey coat" military cap,
and Knickerbocker boots and spurs.
A GENTLEMAN in Vermont recently imag-
ined that he had swallowed his false teeth,
and suffered terrible internal agonies until
the teeth were found in his pocket.
A BOY in Tennessee, who wanted to un-
derstand hanging, tried to hang his little
brother, and, falling, tried to hang himself,
with complete success.
Ii is said that the squirrels have nearly
all disappeared from the woods in South
Carolina since the war. During the rebel
lion it was discovered that they were eata-
Bile, and they have been hunted since.
A SAD disaster, originating in an explo-
sion in fireworks mandatory, occurred
at Edinburgh, Scotland. recently. Five
persons were killed, and seven more or less
seriously injured.
A MAN named Van Arsdale is on trial
for the murder Of a young boy, in Somer-
vile, NJ. His counsel plead that he was
laboring under spiritual hallucination at
the time of the commission of the crime,
but the prosecution contend that he perpe-
trated the deed from violent malignancy Of
temper.
The Springfield Republican quotes from
Dickens last letter about this country, and
says: "All this proves, any way, that he is
now ready to kiss and make up as the
children say. And surely Americans can
be nothing 10th. They love Dickens, be-
cause they cannot help it, and want to
have him love, at least to appreciate,
them" /