Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-27
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News of the Day.

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GENERAL NEWS, ,..,
eTHotDelosed in New York Saturday eve
nfngs at 1881 - s}ass ssa1 e s9
-FHE Omaha papers complain that new
comers, there have to sleep out of doors
owing to the lack Of houses.
TIE Missouri river continues rising
The food in the river is now higher than al
any time since 1874.
- FIVE mad dogs were killed in Chicago
one day last week, and on the same day
four persons were bitten. s
WIscoNsrN and Minnesota were visited
By severe snow storm Sunday night, at
tended with cold weather. .s5iI
.LuxEMBURe really belongs to William
the Third OF Orange, but the Prussians
have it aud the French want to have it.
The Independent has discovered that ''the
States that now need reconstruction are
the Northern.n That's what's coming.
"A PRETTY girl ran from Fall River to
Providence after negro minstrel, and her
mother pursuing caught her just in time
A SINGLE haul of the seine in AlbemaIle
Sound. N. O., captured $4,000 herrings and
$1,000 shad, zsrssssss
saLoUIsvILLE one night thought it saw a
lost pleiad hunting for its way, but it turn
ed out to be Drummond light.
Ex-GovERNoR SELDOM RoANE, of Arkan-
sas, died on the 9Th inst. He was Colonel
in the Mexican war;
THE steamer r, E. Lee got adrift at
T. hoo ncf oh
she struck, and injured several others.
z ASF. LOUIS reverend is of the opinion
that all the wood on the continent will be
used aup within the next century and
halt. issa1fspss 6as
-aAzRELIGtoUs paper says "it has been
noticed that every marked revival OF re-
ligion has been followed by season of
greater wiekedness.n Es .saaTkh
fA GEErLEMAN in Pennsylvania got up at
midnight, took an axe aud beat out his
wife's brains, and then neatly hung himself
with his suspenders.F yesu8
The, beyies of pretty bar7maids at the
restaurants in the English branch of the
Exposition building, excite the admiration
Of all the French visitors.
SdTHE Connecticut farmers are turning
their attention this spring to the cnltiva-
ton of sorghum in place of tobacco, the
latter being slow of sale.
.sbFoUR new steamers, with tonnage of
i26SS tons, and five new barges, tonnage
is5S tons. have been registered at Pittsburg
during the last quarter.
The Marquis of Westminster has adj
vanced s50,0OO for a new paper in London,
tn be called The Day. It is to knock the
Times outof time. y
A JOURNAL in st. Petersburg, Russia, an
nounces that the cholera seems inclined
to repeat its visit of lastyear Many cases
haYe appeared in the hospitals.
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STATE NEWS.
THE Darby Wool Growers Association
met at Darbyville, on the 10th of April,
1867, and reelected the old board of officers
and agreed to hold their shearing at the
farm of DR.. T. w. Jones, on the 10Th OF
May. ~ =, I
DAVID HoLsToN, son Of DR.. Jno. Holston.
was quite severely injured by having his
arm badly lacerated at Blandy's Machine
shop Wednesday afternoon, says the ZGnes-
UtHe Signal. Medical assistance was rem
dered and he is in fair way of recovery.
QUITE number of entries have been
made for the Spring Races over the Asso-
citation grounds, adjoining this city, says
the ChtIIicothe Advertiser. The entries in
! clnde some of the best horses in the coun-
try, and the season promises to be one of
interest. 80
THE Defiance Democrat. of Saturday says
that Isaac Smith, of Delaware township,
young man, married, by trade carpenter,
was drowned in Tiffin river, at Bruners-
burg, on Sunday last, by the swamping of
his canoe near the dam. ~
ABOUT 10 o'clock Tuesday evening, fire
broke out in the, summer kitchen attached
to the building of DR.. Miller, says the
C7billicothe Advertiser, on Main street. The
kitchen, fence and surrounding build
ings were consumed; but by the most
energetic labor on the part of the firemen
and our citizens, the building was saved.
ANDREW SIcKLEs came near losing his
life, few days ago, by the explosion of a
coal oil lamp, says the Hooking Sentinel. He
attempted to put it out by blowing in the
chimney, when it suddenly exploded, and
scattered the burning fluid over his person.
Strange to say, he was but little burned
The skin of his face was taken of, but will
be healed up in little time.
"A CARPENTER working on John Irwin's
new building, on Sixth street, says the
ZGaesuiIte Signal Wednesday afternoon, fell
from the second story to the pavement
without the least injury. About an hour
afterwards he was working on the rear of
the same building, putting up the cornice,
whenh again fell, this time iniuring an
arm and leg: Eo 0E
WE learn, says the ZanesriIle Signal, that
the barn of Mr.. Rankin, near Gratiot, was
entirely consumed on Saturday evening.
AS near as we can learn the cause of the
accident was, that a young son of Mr.. R.
accfdently set some straw afre which soon
spread to the barn, and as none of the male
members of the family were home at the
time, the devourfng element consumed the
entire structure. A horse, several sets of
harness, &C., were burned.
CHARLES JOHNSON died last Sunday
night from the effects of being kicked by
a horse. He had leased Mat. Witmore's
farm for the coming season, and moved on
to-She place Thursday last, and on Friday
morning in passing behind one of Mr.. Wit
more,s horses in the stable. was kicked in
the abdomen, and suffered extremely until
sunday evening at 8 O'Clock, when he pass
al tn the future life. leaving a wife and