Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-22
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEW.


GOLD closed in New York yesterday -
143zS. I.sll.r. l....
LORD RUSSELL, who is i'll in Ireland, ha )
had an epileptic fit.
- GEN. CANBY ordered q salute to be tirt |
at Charleston on Senior Romero's arriv |
there.
CHICAGO pays city tax of s2,4ss, ,245 this
year. "A 15r. M,
AwoMAN was burned 20 death in Bot
ton on Thursday, by the explosion OF q
vessel of benzine, and girl was fatally =
jured. . ~ Cis-ii- e'i F'-+j
% FIVE persons were made seriously III
at Troy, New York, last Monday,
eating the compound known as she
cheese ts
THERE are seventeen candidates for t.
L. S. Senatorship in California-enough 1.
choose from.
THE steam tannery of Reber & Brothei.
at Milton, Union county, Pa.,was destroy,f
by fire last week. Loss $1,000; insuran,,
$1,000.
IT is said that dog at the Peoria In.,
Postoffice stands guard at the ladies' doot,
and won't let gentlemen enter.
Ex-DETEcrIvE BAKER has arrived il.
Washington from Albany, to testify befo,
a Congressional committee. .--4,---
.r A PITTSBURGH shoemaker. named August
Cors, drowned himself on Sunday, becau
a young lady in an oyster saloon refused I,
marry him.
THEIRS is said to be preparing two great
spseches -one on the general state of Ert
ripe and one on the financial condition ,f
France.
AN assessment OF s9s,ooO has been REM
dered by the Government revenue officers
against William Hudson, distiller of
GAINESVILLE, Wis, for an evasion of the ta'.
on whisky.
Hon. C. T. HULBURD has just returneN
from Europe, and declines the Republical
nomination for State Comptroller of Ne-'i
York.
THE grape harvest is beginning on Il e
islands of Lake Erie. Over fifty tons wei.
received at Sandusky for shipment the first
three days of last week.
THE Boston Traveller congratuiates tina
city on the increase Of its business activita
last week. The receipts of flour aloBi,
averaged over ten thousand barrels day,
while the coasting and foreign trade wa,
very large.
A PARIS journal says that the unfortl,.
nate Empress Carlotta, Of Mexico, ha;
become worse than ever, and that there s.
now no hope of her recovery. She is ui..
der strict surveillance.
IT is stated that George Leeming,
blacksmith at Evansville, Pa, has falle,l
heir to an estate in England, estimated ~
more than million Of dollars, and hsi.
sailed for that country to take possession.
On Monday last several mule-spinners
who have been employed in the Wamsutt,'
Mills since the strike, received their boui;-
ty of $50 each, which was promised them
in addition to better wages than common,
on condition of their remaining sa
months.
THE enormous wheat receipts at Mil
waukee continue. Last week they amoun'i.
ed to 972535 bushels-the largest quantit,
ever received there in one week. Over five
million bushels of the new crop of whe;
had been received at Milwaukee up to las.
Saturday.
THE vile practice of "hazing" has beef
revived in Yale College. A freshman wa
enticed from his room last week by four G.
five "sophs," who took him to a retire
place, where they shaved all the hair off hi
head and otherwise insulted him.
THE death is announced of the Britisa
Admiral B. Marwood Kelly, at the age G :
eighty-two. The Admiral was Midship
man of the Gibraltar in the expedition t
Ferrol and to Egypt, and the attack on thl
French works on the Island of EIba.
"A perfect woman. nobly planned
To warn, to comfort, to command"
When we give the suffrage to women,
may hope to see such woman. While W
deny them the education which sufrag.
gives their brothers, we cannot blame therr
for the want of it. While we sympatheti
cally train them to be dolls, we must nci
savagely denounce them for having to
costly a wardrobe of dolls clothes.-Ne
York Independent.
SILK CULTUrE promises to be an impor.
tant part of the future industry of Califol,
nia. Silk worms have ,een bred in Cali
fornia regularly since 1860. and the wealth
er having been favorable, the increase ha
been rapid, and next year the total pro
duction will, il is expected, reach as high;
$4,000, 900 cocoons. 1t is said the average /
European cocoons in quality and quantit
of fibre is considerably surpassed by tn
California cocoons.
The Canadians are as anxious for a r. !,
newal of reciprocity between Canada an
the United States as some people in tb
country are. A letter from Canada, refer
ring to the approaching session of Parlie
ment, says that among the earliest measur.
to be introduced will be one to re establisl,
If possible, the reciprocity treaty with th
United States.
ENGLISH business affairs are quite as du,j
as trade in America. In a review of bust
ness in England, the London Daily Nev
says, it is the fact that for many years pas
the trading profits have rarely been lowe
than they are now. Many even of tho
highest mercantile firms of first-class
standing and long established repute, arei
as it were, living from hand to mouth.
THE English papers are beginning t.i
growl about the cost of the Abyssinian ex
pedition, and about favoritism in the giy<
ing out of contracts. The Pail Mall Ga
zette complains that hay is shipped at grea
cost and high freight from England, wheH
= cheaper supply might have been obtained
in India. s.i7ai zeti iai ..,
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