Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-06
News of the Day.

GoLp closed in New York yesterday at
1899.
JUDGE LUDLOW, of Philadelphia, has de-
cided that to dazzle the eyes OF people with
looking glass is equivalent to an assault
and battery.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Mississippi has
two hundred and ten students, and is other
wise prospering. q
IMMIGRATION is beginning anew. Six
hundred steerage passengers arrived at
New York on Saturday by one steamer.
THE walnut and hickorynut crop is very
abundant this season in Ohio.
CAPT. THOMAS H. TAYLOR, well known
steamboatman of st. Louis, died on Satur-
day.
worth 100000.
g. The first white child born in Wisconsin
celebrated her silver wedding the other
day. ,i
IT is stated. that the late George w. Ken
dali leaves an estate valued at $5OO,O0O.
Hon. JOSEPH A. POND, late President of
the Massachusetts State Senate, died on
Monday. s1s
In the neighborhood of Besancon,
France, a lad eight years of age went out
into the fields with lamb and goat to
pasture them. In the afternoon all three
were found killed and mangled by wolves.
THE Boston Journal says, with regard to
stubborn pens: '.If steel pen is too stiff,
stick it into gas flame for few seconds,
then dip it into water, oil or tallow. If
new pen is greasy, put it in the fame for
an instant and the ink will run.
THE third mate of the clipper ship Fear
less, of Boston, is under arrest at San
Francisco for numbering the second mate,
on his recent passage out, in quarrel,
which occurred during heavy gale off
Cape Horn.
THE Newburyport, (Mass.) Herald says:
s'There were one thousand sermons preach
ed in Massachusetts, we have been told,
on the Sunday previous to the election, in
order to influence the voting on Tuesday"
The Cleveland Leader says that city has
"forty-three Protestant churches, with an
average attendance OF fifteen thousand;
seven Roman Catholic churches, with
twelve thousand attendance and two syna-
gogues, with three hundred and fifty at
tendance"
A HAND-oRGAN grinder was lately no.
ticed turning away in disgust from the
front of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Hart
ford. His audience, SO to speak, consisted
of one little boy, and he adeaf one, intent
ly curious to see what he was turning the
handle for.
The Washington Eoening Star has been
sold by Mr.. Wallach to Messrs. Noyes, Ba-
ker & Co. Mr.. Crosby s. Noyes has been
connected with the paper for fifteen years,
and for several years past has been the
managing editor. Mr.. Baker has been for
some years the cashier of the establish
ment. These gentlemen bring to the man
agement a ripe experience, and deter
mination to make the Star, IT possible, q
still greater success. Mr.. Wallach retires
with an ample fortune to his beautiful es-
tate near Washington, and will devote
himself to agricultural pursuits.
THE New York Police Commissioners,
about year ago, resolved that in the fu-
ture thieves should not be allowed to es-
cape on restoring stolen property, but
that in all cases when offenders were ar
rested they must be prosecuted. The
result, it is said, has proved the wisdom
of this decision, the number OF robberies
in New York having sensibly decreased.
Thieves are bold when they are certain
of having their crimes condoned by their
victims, but they do not like to run the
risk of going to prison.
Mr.. CHARLES DICKENS is expected to ar
rive at Boston next week on the steamer
Cuba. He will begin his readings in that
city, and intends to limit them to four a
week. After giving four readings in Bos-
ton, he will go to New York, where he
opens on December 9th, and in January he
expects to visit Philadelphia. He will
give about forty readings in this country,
and expects to return to England next
May.
In Spain it is announced that the Dowa-
ger Queen Christina is endeavoring to re-
concile Queen Isabella and General Prim,
and apparently not without some hopes of
success. The General has never pro-
nounced against the reigning dynasty
fact which has been detrimental to him
with the ultra radical party.
THE Alabama Constitution Convention,
which is to reconstruct the State, meets at
Montgomery next Monday. 1t consists of
90 Radicals Q3 being negroes) and two
Conservatives.
The COLORADO CRoPs.-It is stated that
the crop of last year in Colorado, as esti-
mated by a careful person, was, of wheat,
100000 bushels; barley and oats, $4,000
bushels; corn, 600. 900 bushels-an increase
of fthree-fold over the preceding year. This
year, in consequence of the ravages of
grasshoppers, the crops have been cut
down in the aggregate about one-half in
quantity.
THE RED SEA derives its name from por-
tions being covered with patches, from a
few yards to some miles square, composed
of microscopic vegetable animalculB. par
ticularly abundant in the spring, and which
dye the water an intensely blood red. When
not affected by these organic beings, the
deep waters are blue, and the shOal waters
shades of green.
WHO called the American flag "poll
ted rag ?" a "faunting lie ?" Radical Re-
publicans.-N. Y. World.
The World ought to have added, Who
first fired on the American flag? Southern
Democrats.-Cleuelgnd Leader.
The man RUFF1N, of N. c., that first
fired on the American flag was of the
party that the Leader itself belonged to, an