Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-20
News of the Day.

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Gold closed in New York Saturday even
ing at 1867. ss $50 4s-sy s--r~
BABIES are taxed in Bulgaria. u
RA1LRoADs are running right over the
paganism of India. TCEc
VIoLEs bows are now made of women's
hair. @-'- '-e --.,
CALIFORNIA is building five important
lines of railroad.
No ONE can say the tailors did not strike
while the iron was hot.-Punch.
BISMARCK is feathering his nest. Hehas
just paid $4l259O for country seat.
LAURA KEENE, wears $4,000 worth of dia-
monds.in one of her plays. "a 9" Z = -
WHAT is better than promising young
MANI A paying one. ~ &
THE loss in Chicago by fire, in April.
reached $97,112 with an insurance thereon
of $75,510. lzs sa0- sae-seaA2a2 "a
The famine has not ceased its ravages in
India. In the district Of Cuttack the
deaths were forty per day. " r0}
The French frigate, with two hundred
females, intended for convicts. has arrived
at Sidney, New South Wales. ~
A MAN at Worcester has been fined two
dollars and costs for planting his garden on
Sunday .t.I,,4, -at :
THE poorest man in Beckett, N. H, has
lust been made, the richest by. legacy of
S2O0,OO0. ...,,,. l..ass.,,.l ,,l
The tomb of the King of the interior of
Africa is ornamented with the skulls of
one hundred negroes.
A DANCE was lately held in a rural town
in Maine, the proceeds of which are to be
expended In the purchase of hearse.
A MEMPHIS paper saysa number ofladies
in that city smear their taces with un-
gents, Roman like, to force the growth of
a beard. a4s N "a
The St. Paul and Pacific railroad is now
opened to the west side of the Mississippi
river, over the St, Anthony bridge, and
trains run regularly.
WE hear number of ladies are. about to
set good example to th,ir sex, by forming
swimming club" And quite natural,
too, the Ducks Punch. -
The richest member of the Connecticut
Senate is an Irishman, whose property is
valued at $25O0OOO. He made his money
from an oil farm purchased for $2,500.
A Rn1pGEPoRT, Conn, citizen refused an
Increase of wages to one of his servant girls
lately, saying that he considered the priv
ileges she enjoyed of living in a Christian
family worth So a month.
RADICAL papers make great ado over
the fact that JEFF. Davis received attentions
in Richmond, but they thought it all right
to honor Garrison who called the Federal
Constitution a league with death and a
convenant with hell"
THE time has come again when Presi-
dent of the United States may walk the
streets in safety. Yesterday President
johnson took walk out on Fourteenth
street wholly NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. guard,
policeman or anything else to suggest the
thought of possible danger. He took
quiet stroll, unknown to all save those who
met him on the way and respectfully sa-
luted him.][Wash.C Cores. a'
STATE NEWS.
Col. JONAS WARD, long time resident
of Piqua, was buried in the cemetery there
on Wednesday, says the Democrat. la
A NEGRO in Dayton, on Thursday, moved
by jealousy, shot his ''own true love-" the
ball entering her lett breast. The would-be
murderer was arrested, says the Empire.
PETTY thieving and burglary is becom-
ing quite prevalent in and about Piqua.
The Democrat has accounts of some four or
five cases during the past week.
THE falling off in gross receipts of the
Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, stated in
President L'Hommedieu'sr report, published
yesterday. was ssO,O2s during the year.
In Logan, Hooking county, on Monday,
two women, relatives, named Pontius,
quarreled and assailed each other with
clubs. In the melee a child of one of the
female savages was killed.
NEwHALL WILSON, of Adams township.
Washington county, has flock of sheep
numbering thirty-seven. Twenty-nine of
them have fifty lambs, and nineteen of them
have forty lambs-an average of more than
two lambs apiece for the nineteen.
On Monday morning last, about three
O'Clock, the rear end of the dwelling house
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was discovered to be on fire, and before it
could be extinguished the kitchen, smoke
house, and store-room were entirely con-
sumed The store-room contained large
amount of groceries and provisions, all of
which were destroyed.
The Clyde Times says: The house OF
Mr.. Timothy Wilcox, in York township,
Sandusky county, was burned on last Fri
day, together with greater part of it's
contents. The fire originated by sparks
from the chimney falling on the roof. Loss
about $4,000. No insurance. The frequent
occurrence of fires should warn people to
insure their property in some reliable Com
pany without further delay. We are glad
to say that the frosts that have visited this
neighborbood for the last few nights have
been so light that the fruit has not been in
jured thereby. The peach trees are be-
ginning to blossom, and there is good
prospect for an abundant peach crop.
DURING the thunder storm last Monday
morning, the Church of God, on Front
street, was struch by lightning. The stee-
nile of the church had never been finished,
only the skeleton posts being up, and the
lightning struck one of these, splintering it
TO pieces, and continuing down it until with
in about a foot and half of the roof, where
IL Jumped of the post and entered the roof,
running down rafter about ten feet. and
then, taking another jump, and going
through the ceiling, knocking off about
ward of plastering, and dropping from
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