Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-20
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS

News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
134.
MORE than three hundred kinds of hoop
skirts are manufactured in New York
SAN Francisco exported in October $780,
900 sacks of wheat, valued at 81, 100000.
Ir is stated that 5000 bales of cotton
were raised this season in one county of
Illinois.
On Friday last, few miles from Hunts
vile, Alabama, a Freedmen's Burean agent,
named Pointer was tarred and varnisht d
by lot OF enraged negroes. The agent,
with an air of authority, endeavored to
impose a tax on his supposed colored
dupes, at the same time cursing and abus-
ing them. The darkies couldn't stand this,
and, seiziug the Bureau man, they be-
smeared him awfuliy aud. then set him
adrift.
SIMON, once celebrated executioner in
France, has just died. He was;very proud
of his business, but allowed his prejudices
against individuals to lead him to protraet
the torture of those whose punishment was
entrusted to him. He was once fined for
wilful bungling in branding man sem
fenced to undergo that form ofpunishment.
and in guillotining priest he cut off only
part of his head at the first fall OF the axe,
and hand at the secoud. He was finally
dismissed. from his Office, but enjoyed exc
IN hat
at them and frequently acted as volunteer.
He died poor in a hospital.
Sr. LOUIS is again alarmed at the danger
OF becoming an inland town. A careful
examination by the city officials, the other
dav, revealed the fact that the Missouri
river, which discharges into the: Mississip-
pi some twenty miles above, sends its vol
ume of water at right angles across with
such force against the Illinois shore as to
have worn it away nearly g mile. There is
some danger of the river making a'channel
through the American bottom, so as to leave
St. Louis two miles from the stream. 1t is
proposed to rivet the Illinois shore with
stone, where the river infringes, to prevent
it from wearing away.
In Brooklyn, very beautiful church
spire is being erected, and it is said that
the mode of determining the inclination of
the spire and regulating its perpendicular
itys is Ingenious, though simple. 1t is ac-
complished by an instrument called a bat
ter plumb. This is made of two wooden rules
Joined together at the extremities, with
plumb line hanging free between them.
One of these rules is perpendicular and the
other inclined at the angle required for the
swell of the spire. This inclined rule is
the plumb line falling more or less from the
perpendicular of the other rule, shows
VIII ether the line is accurate.
STATE NEWS.
On Saturday last the only son of James
Corbett, in this city, says the Richland
Shield and Banner, was so seriously scaded
by accidentally falling backwards into a
kettle of boiling water, that he died the
same evening. He was all interesting lad
of about seven years of age and their only
child. The heart-striken parents are in
consolable in this severe aff1iction.
On Friday night Of last week, the school
house on the o'd plank road, about a mile
south of the center of Champion, says the
Warren Constitution, took fire and was burn
ed to the ground together with the con-
tents. There had been school IN the house
during the day, and it is supposed that
some firewood that had been lett near the
stove to dry took fire, which was cummu-
nicated to the house and caused the de-
struction of the building.
WE learn that the freight brakeman who
net SO horrible a death near Kent, Ohio,
on Monday night, the 9th inst, on the A.
& CIV. Railway, says the Richland Shield
and Banner, was Charley Balding. 1t
seems that while in the act of stepping
from one car to another he made misstep
and fell through on to the track, the en-
tire length of the train passing over him
and mangling his body in a most shocking
manner. His remains were taken to Kent,
where, we learn, he has friends residing.
THE Canton Republican says: "Those of
our readers who are not aware of the acci-
dent which occurred to John Stroble, will
he greatly surprised to learn of his sudden
tanned by slight tall on Wednesday af-
ternoon. Mr.. s. was standing in the old
Atwater warehouse, and by misstep fell
through hatchway. John Young and
others were present, and tried to catch
him, but did not succeed. The distance to
the cellar floor is only seven feet, but in
falling backward Mr.. s. was injured in the
neck SO severely as to cause his death on
Friday. -ss.,s
THE Dela,oare Herald says: The Rev. II.
Herzer, of Columbus, has discovered and
collected quite number of the fossil teeth
of sharks, and other fishes of the anti-car-
boniterous period, many of which he found
In the strata of this county. Among 9TH
ers, he found, in a concretion of black slate,
at Lewis Center, a fossil jaw-bone, two
feet in length, evidently that of fish,
which competent pal@tonologists, in honor
to the reverend discoverer, have named
Dinichtys Hezcaii.. He intends, we learn,
as soon as the weather will permit, to con.
tinue his searchings in this county and
Franklin.
IHE Portsmouth Tribune says: The
amount OF whisky transported in bond
from the Eleventh District of Ohio, B, F.
Coates, Collector, during the month of No
vemoer, was 2'O25 barrels. containing 1Os,-
199 gallons, on which the amount of tax
was $2l6 393, all of which was manufac-
tured by Geo. Davis & Co.. at their distille-
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