Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-22
New. of the Day.

A GANG of desperate characters are COM
mitting all sorts of crimes in Milwaukee.
On Sunday they murdered an inoffensive
young man, named Tesch, just outside the
city, as he was on his way home to see his
parents. n rs5s-a'r
A WOMAN in Bridgeport, Conn.,, who had
lost 5000 in Government bonds, accused
several innocent persons, and finally em
ployed professional detective, who found
the, money sewed up in her dress.
CANADA is very anxious to have New
foundland. British Columbia and Vancou-
yer In the Dominion Confederation, but the
last named prefers annexation to Brother
Jonathan, and the others are rather indif-
ferent. e..l:f9-.lf,s .-. rr-,,
TIE World asks If it be possible that Ma
poleon sent French troops to Rome for the
purpose OF giving his Chassepot rifles fair
trialP The test certainly proved the arm
to be an Imminent and deadly breach"-
loader ~-
IT Is stated by a cable dispatch that
Brown & Levels life-saying tackle, an
American invention for instantaneously
lowering and detaching small boats from
the sides of vessels going at fall speed, has
been adopted by the French navy, after a
trial at Toulon. k4 sSf.sFE#
A BOY, only fourteen years OF age, has
been convicted in France of the murder Of
his schoolmaster, but as the jury discov-
cred extenuating circumstances. the pris-
oner was sentenced to twenty years inn
prisonment and ten years surveillance by
the police-the maximum punishment for
his age.
LEoN1DAs Moses, mail carrier in Ar
kansas, was assassinated recently by somes
unknown person, while riding along az
lonely road His body was not found un-
til eight days after the murder, and all this
time his mule stood guard over the corpse.
The faithful animal had to 60 mile and a
half for water, but Invariably returned and
resumed It's singular vigil. sa--oszsfA ,
Two cribs, which are to form the first
section of some new docks at Chicago, are
each 500 feet long, 80 feet high and 80 feet
wide. There is nearlya million and
quarter feet OF timber in them, and nearly
thirty thousand tons of stone are required
to sink them and hold them in position.
They are to be sunk in twenty-four feet of
water, over one-third Of a mile from shore.
YESTERDAY morning a, little boy, four
teen years old, named Matthew Donahoe,
was taken before Justice Hauptman, in
Morrisania, stupid and unconscious from
the effects of liquor, which had been given
him by some men at Karrs Germania Gar
den. in Melrose. The Justice gave the boy
over to the custody of his friends, and ex-
pressed his extreme regret that he did not
know who the brutes were that could COM
NIT such an outrageous ofense. If he
knew them, the Justice said he would pun
ish them with the severity the offense de-
served.-N. r poper Of Saturday.
STATE NEWS.
On last Saturday morning Mr.. Ely Trip
lit, one of our weaithiest farmers, says the
McConne llsuille Conservative, and who re-
sides about ~ miles from town, suffered a
severe loss by the entire consumption by
fire Of bis residence and most of his house,
hold goods and the clothing of his family
The fire occurred little before day break.
Mr.. Triplitt, in attempting to abate the
and shoulders We learn that his house
was insured-though to what extent we
are not informed. ---9
-QurTE an extensive confagration occur
red at Eimore, Ohio, on the 18th. The suf-
fe,ers are Jacob Stall, grocer; P. Stine,
grocer c. Egert, cabinet maker; P. X.
Krotzer, shoe dealer: w. Caldwell C Son,
druggists; CIV. Knightly, law office. The
building occupied by Messrs. Caldwell and
Knightly was brick structure, owned by
A. w. Luckley, Esq; only the walls are
standing. The other buildings were small
frames. The loss on the buildings destroy
ed ranges from $4,000 to $4,50O. The stocks
were removed almost entire, and in good
condition, with the exception of that of
Mr.. Krotzer, who had a quantity of leather
stored in a cellar which was not removed.
The property was nearly all insured.
DAVID KEEToN, cattle broker, who re-
sides in Hooking county, Ohio, was arrest
ed there, and brought to Cincinnati on
Monday, for violating the Internal Reve-
nue. law, in not procuring license. United
States Commissioner F. Halliday held the
defendant to bail in the sum of $500 for
examination on the first of December next.
This Is the first arrest of the kind under
the Internal Revenue law, and its publica-
tion may serve to put cattle brokers On
their guard in the premises. 1t is proba-
Bile that not single cattle broker knew of
the existence of the law, yet it is right
they should be prosecuted, for in these
days, man must get out license for eve
ry thing he does and intends to do. The
Government needs money to feed Radical
politicians, and they must be fed, no mat
ter who suffers.
AN honest, ,homeward-bound pedestrian,
in Cincinnati, on Tuesday night, stopped
to raise from the pavement an apparently
intoxicated man. The pretended victim
of too much whisky happened to be thief,
and, while the good Samaritan was assist
ing him, he picked his pocket OF wallet
containing the small sum of So.
The Barnesviue Enterprise understands
that that dread disease-small pox-has
broken out in Beallsville, Monroe county.
Several cases have occurred, but we believe
that none of them have as yet resulted
fatally.
CLARKE county is not behind the rest of
the world in instances of longevity. The
widow James, who resides in German
Township, in this county, has reached the
extraordinary age Of one hundred and three
years, and is still, we believe, in possession
Of most Of her faculties, though of course
not retaining the yigor Of her prime. She
Is the mother of Mr.. Abram James. So says
the Spriaafed RepuhIc