The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-03-14
CLIPPINGS.


Il is said that the Bankrupt Bill
will st a. T. Stewart over 81 900, 900,
chiefy in bad Southern debts.
The best informed merchants IN
New York are making arrangements
TO do onethird less business than they
did last year. 'if
A New York shoe firm have pre.
pared sixty styles Of ladies shoes for
the Paris Exposition-au American 10.
.stitution likely to attract much atten.
ton.
The quarterly statement of Mr. Jof.
ferson Davis health has just appear.
ed. As there may be some personal or
political friends OF his who occasional.
ly see this paper, we will mention. to
spare them any needless anxiety, that
J. d. i. stout, and lives as comfort
able al Fortress Monroe rs any of the
United State officers there.
Virginia papers are considerably
exercised at the rapid disappearance
of the colored population from tho
State and advise that no effort should
be spared, such as kind treatment and
good pay, To retain them within tho
State limits.
The Cleveland, GAINESVILLE & Cincin.
natl Railroad is to be extended four
miles beyond Milersburg, in the
spring, To connect with extensive coal
banks. Companies are organizing for
the purpose Of getting out coal, and
this extension will add much to tho
business OF the road and TO the good
fortune of the people Of Millersbprg.
The Eaton Register says that i've
y debate was recently held among tho
citizens of some OF the tout townships"
of that county, upon the question:
Does the earth reyolve on its axis e.
A Democratic Justice Of the Peace
headed the party on the negative side,
They thought any fool could see that II
the earth turned over, the water would
all run out OF the wells
Solomon johnson, coiored man,
formerly President LincoIn's barber.
has been appointed frst-closs clerk
in the Treasury Department in Wash
ingron, with a desk in the Seoretarys
office.
So many people are out Of employ
ment in New York that recruiting Of
fcers are doing good business.
Samuel Downing, the old revolution.
airy veteran, died on Monday last in
Saratoga county, N Y, at the age of
lO7 years He was the only man
whose name was on the revolutionary
pension roll before the recent act Of
Congress placing John Gray Of Noble
Co Ohio on the list
The London gossips think that
Queen Victoria is To be married again /;
but it is no, intimated to whom.
4 widow was so incoGsolnble for the
loss of husband that she took an.
other to prevent her fl ON gricving her.
self to death,
WHAT Din IT.-Rev. P. Y. Nasby
in q late letter, gives the following so-
luton of a mystery;
Now, thut | think nv it, 1 hev at
last solved the mystery Nv our wide-
spread delrat last fall. In some Dee
slricks the Democracy found Johnson
too heavy n / ad to carry, and in the
balance the johnson men found the
Dmocrary to heavy load to. carry.
The Washington correspondent Of
the n. Y. Tribune says that those who
think the impeachment matter will die
in the hands of the Committee will be
startled when the Committee reports.
Parties are in Washington to testify to
+ the restoration by President johnson,
of plantations, seized as abandoned
property. at the time when the crops
belonged tothe lcssees. thus ignoring
contracts and infctng great losses on
Union men,
f A new textile material rcsembllng
! hemp has been discovered in Nevada.
| 1t has stronger and fner fibre and
J. longer staple than hemp; the stalk
, yields more, md en be stripped and
D be prepared without previous prepar-
/ alton. II all this is true, the plant 10
!. an acquisition equal in vuIue to The