Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-18
News of the Day.

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CHICAGO has about one man killed each
day on some one of its railroad tracks.
sTHH A., W.gFaber establishment at Nul
emberg, Germany, sends out 900, ,0OO, 900 lead
,pShcils d year. GssssSli1fio1 i58'fa9E}
BusINEss is aall in Rhode Island In the
vicinity OF Providence, 100000 cotton
spindies have been stopped within ten
liz Canada there are seyenty-three gold
mines, employing seven hundred and eight
miners. The yield of gold for the last
three months is valued at $3.50, ,955.
.THERh is now in bond in the First Dis
trict of Cincinnati 3,s3s,l2O gallons of
whisky, equal to 5000 barrels, the tax on
which, if it could be collected, which it
cannot, would be $7,676,240. os1asy
THE members of st. Louis band were
lately fined five dollars piece for playing
in the streets on Sunday, but the leader
escaped, because, Jas the statute Judge ruled E,
his baton made no noise. ------
-HCoRYDoN, by whose testimony the pris-
oners who were captured at ,Dungannon
have been identified, was yesterday attack
ed by mob of countrymen at Waterford,
and barely escaped their, vengeance with
bis life,y AiAAe = ~ . hs'A - - '"A
.-ApyIcEs received at General Grants
headquarters from New Orleans, show that
General Sheridan has commenced. the re-
organization of the police force in that city,
and has appointed several colored men as
policemen. e 10 lsh od' s ioi ~. - 1E1 -
oh cd .daxy In
the Surratt case, VIM. B. Todd, a retired
meTchantof Washington city. Every kind
Of excuse was rendered by the large num-
Der subpnnaed yesterday, and most all got
off on some plea.
THERE are now at Naples fifty eight
newspapers, thifty-four OF which are po
litical, five artistic, three legal, four re-
ligious, and five theatrical. Twenty of
them appear dailyothirty-t weekly and
five monthly. The circulation of the daily
papers is 35,0Oo;s 5 of the weekly 1890; and
of the monthly, 1,7o0.
"A VERDICT Of ss67, 600 damages was OBJ
tanned by the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company in 1861 against the rebel
General s. b, Buckner, for destroying their
bridges and water works. The General
now asks for rehearing of the case, on the
ground that be cannot be held responsible
for obeying military orders, C,r7vy,h a
TIE Tennessee papers tell a funny story
of the exploits Of q negro, who, short
time since, found bag of gold in hollow
log: He converted his gold into five
twenties and had over $4,000. He went to
New Orleans, worked in, a barber-shop,
studied evenings, acquired good know1-
edge of English and French, and inlMarch
last went to Europe as the attendant of an
ex-Confederate General, and now turns up
as the proprietor of first-elass American
restaurant in the Paris Exposition.
INv South Carolina wheat and corn promise
finely. Cotton is backward, but the stands
generally are good. The Sea Island crop
is likely to be large one, unless some
untoward event now unforeseen should
prevent its perfection Vegetables have
never been more abundant on the low
country. Seven hundred barrels of pota-
toes went -northward from Charleston on
Saturday In a single Steamer. The mar
kets are filled with the choicest edibles of
the season, and the gardens are luxuriant
with growth. .aseis9 59s e '+a;s FL .saisas IS,
STATE NEWS.
The Ohio Former says the cherries are
falling off badly in consequence of the
long cold storm that prevailed while they
sh ,uld have been settling their fruit.
THE Repository says there is to be grand
tournanlent at Canton the 4th of July.
Knights, ladies and squires are to be pres
ens, and brilliant display of Knight Err
rlnty is expected.
CHIBLIcoTHE is to have a gay time on
the 4th of July, inaugurating steam fire
engine-a big celebration, firemen from
Portsmouth, waverly, Circleville and 9TH
sr places expected to take part. 5'7re 20
PERRIN MoRRIs, a mail carrier, who was
arrested on the 25th of last March, and
confessed to robbing the q. s. Mail on the
route between this city and Brownsville,
Licking county, and throwing the letters
extracted from the mail bag into the Mus
kingum river, was at the recent session of
the Uuited States District Court, for the
Southern District of Ohio, indicted for the
offense, plead guilty, and was sentenced to
serve two years in the Ohio Penitentiary.
GAS the two o'clock train on the Cincin-
natl and GAINESVILLE railroad, says the Ian
castE Eagle, was nearing Stoutsyille on last
Monday morning, the engine struck a large
bowlder which had been placed on the
track, by some evil disposed person the
night before. The collision was terrific,
doing great damage to both engine and
train. The only person hurt was a boy.