Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-14
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Dss. News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York Saturday at
144f16,s pl.n 955fa
INTexas, according to the latest advices,
there is very bad condition OF the public
health. The yellow fever is not only very
malignant but has been spreading largely
into the interior, the only decrease being
that resulting from want of material to
work upon. Business is suspended, and
feeling OF terror has seized the people.
In the cattle trade OF Virginia, new
feature has been inaugurated by stock
raiser in Fauquier county. who recently
purchased in Texas aud Mexico 800 head
Of cattle. These cattle are intended for
stock purposes, and are represented to be
superior to the animals raised In virginia,
especially In size. :, 7s,. =, lf.iI7
THE cause of the beautiful coiors shown
on soap bubbles has recently been made
subject of finvestigationb BY Sir David Brew
srer, and he thinks they are due. not to
the prismatic effect of varying thicknesses
In the bubbles themselves, but to the .exu-
dation Of coloring substance on the ex-
terror.
LAWSUITS are oftnen Improbable things.
A2yefmont paper tells Of trial at law be-
tween two men in that State, about a sheep,
worth i've dollars, the ownership Of which
was disputed. The case was heard twice,
and the plaintiff recovered $1l6.46 DAM
ages and costs of the defendant; whilst the
plaintiff, although successful, was still out
of pocket some $3.50 for lawyers fees.
Each of the disputants might have bought
afiock Of sheep for what it cost them to
quarrel over single animal U1ElJ
The Portuguese Government, it has
been officially reported at atWashington, has
removed the export duty of five dollars
pipe en- Madeira wine. To compensate tor
the loss Of revenue caused by this change,
q tax has been placed on the retail price
ofssundry articles, including two cents on
salt beef, one cent on rice, and one cent on
pork for every two pounds two ounces,
and small duty on fish and petroleum.
STATUE was recently erected at Nantes
In, honor Of IL. Billaut, and it now appears
that it was paid for by money obtained from
French Government clerks In the same way
as political contributions are often levied
In America. So fsr from being . mark Of
popular esteem, 1t is reported that M. Bill
laut was not very popular in his own town,
and the people of the place constantly ridi-
cule the affair.
AMERICAN enterprise is making its mark
insthe East. II is reported that an Ameri-
can company is constructing system Of
local telegraphs from one port to another
on the coast of China, and they have re-
Gently bought Of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company some fiveA hundred and
twenty-five nautical miles of cable, that
was originally intended to be laid across
Behrhg's Straits, but which will now be-
sent from San francisco to China to be
laid on such portions of the coast between
Hong Kong and Shanghai as may be con-
stored advisable. ~ saSa1 ffSn
sfHE Com mander-in-C Chief of the English
army, which is to invade Abyssinia, is to
be Sir5Robert Napier, who is the present.
COMMANDER OF the Bombay army, and has
been ins the service for forty years. He
was captain Of engineers in the Sikh war
in 1s45. At the outbreak of the Sepoy re-
volt in 1857, he was in England on sick
leave; but he Immediately returned to
India, and was appointed chief OF the staff
of the force which, under Outram, first re-
lieved lucknow. He has since continued
in active service. He is of q different fam
lily rom that of the historian Of the Penin-
sular war. esi@ ~ anni 9'i
LNsRussia. on the Yolga river, q terribles'
accident recently occurred. It is reported
that about one hundred persons were re-
turhing from village fair and entered
ferry boat to cross the river. The vessel
vasF unusually crowded. and when nearing
thBIopposite shore, the ferryman demanded
payment of the fares. The crowd of pas
sengefs was in consequence thrown into 2
state of motion, aud the boat capsized. Not
fewer than sixty-three people were
drowned. The aspect of the dead bodies
the following day, as they were recovered
from the river and placed on the bank, all
in holiday attire, is described as heart
rending, sSs , ]
JOHN McGRATH, private soldier of the
British army, recently was discharged from
the service, and had silver cup given him
by his comrades. His record in the army,
though in the humble position of a private,
is worthy Of honorable mention. He serv
ed % years, during which time he was dec
GRATED with five good conduct badges, a
sdaD1ordistinga gaished service IN the field,
medal for good conduct and long service
and the Crimean and Turkish medals. In
any other but the English army, a man.
who had done so much would have been
raised from the ranks. BE left the army as
he entered it, private, IN consequence
the British military system.
TEE EAmericdn Artisan says that '.itis {
much to be regretted the process of
rendering the material of ladies' muslin
dresses sanin1ammable is not more gener-
alI5euhderstood and used. Either Of three
substances phosphate of ammonia, tuhgs-
tate OF soda and sulphate of ammonia-
be mixed in.the starch and, at the cost of
two cents dress, deaths from burned gar
merits can be rendered impossible. Arti-
clesof apparel subjected to these agents
can, if they burn at all, only smoulder;,
and in, no case can they blaze up In the
sudden and terrible manner in which SO
many fatal accidents have occurred to the
fair wearers of crinoline." -, ~as
In New ENGLAND gambling is common
on all the railroad trains, the smoking cars
of nearly every passenger train on the rail-
ways. being provided with card tables, and
gamingi being thus as 1t *ere, officially
sanctioned by the railway corporators.