The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-11-07
CLIPPINGS.
The health of Mrs. Andrew John
son is rapidly improving,

There ara now one thousand and
FIVE prisoners in the Ohio Penitent.
iary.
During the year ending October
Both, 2Os,4 ,42S emigrants arrived at
New York.
Philadelphia goes in strong on
Grant. Every ward has club in
his favor.
About 5000 person have died Of
the yellow fever in New Orleans.
Canada is a good place for rebel
emigrants, so says Mason in let
ter to the Richmond Examiner.
Fanny Fern has made over $780,
600 by her writings, most of them
for the Ledger.
There are now upward of five
hundred American students in the
various universities of Germany.
Senator Thayer, of Nebraska,
reports the Northwest in favor OF
Grant for the Presidency.
1t is proposed in Nashville that
one half the police shall be ne
groes.
A New Orleans widow, on the
sunny side of forty. has just taken
to herself an eighth husband.
Dickens gives his first reading
in this country in Boston. He will
appear in New York December 9th.
He is to give 80 readings in the
country.
The Union B. B. Club of Morris.
ania, N. j., has been awarded the
championship of the United States
BY the Committee of the National
Association.
B. Ii Paine, who wrote q pam
phletto prove that the negro is a
brute and has no soul. is on trial
for murder at Nashville.
Lawrence County, Ohio, with its
Democratic gain of 1921 votes in
one year, is declared the banner
Democratic county, and the silk
flag will be awarded it.
A few years ago Canada was the
refuge of the runaway niggers" Of
this country. Now lis the saints
rest of tho "unreconstructed mas.
ters" of said niggers.
Mexican advices state that Santa
Anna has been tried At Vera Cruz,
and sentenced to death. lie has
petltioned the Supreme Govern.
ment for mercy.
The population Of Great Britain
and Ireland is over 10000, ,00O.-
lneland. 5.650,OOO; Scotland, g..
100000; England and Wales, 81.
150, 600.
The Panama Railroad has been
used for the last eleven years. In
1856 the income was S136.741 and
the expense $3.50, ,249; in 1866, the
income was S2,423 977 and the ex
penditure $l,208,364.
Acoroner's jury, after investigat.
ing the death of a child in Buffalo
brought in verdict of "death from
the injudicious administration Of
Winslows Soothing Syrup which
caused convulsions and congestion
Of the BRAIN"
A wealthy Cuban recently died
in New York, leaving all his prop.
crty to his widow, who was his
second wife. One of his sons by
his first wife has now married the
widow ard the fortune.
A couple in Ridgefold, Mass.
have been celebrating the first an.
nivcrsary of their marriage by a.
paper wedding" at which thoy
appeared in full suits of paper.
"Tho Swamp Angel" which from
its swampy retreat threw shot and
shell into Charleston, q distance of
four or five miles, has been purchas.
ed by foundryman Of Trenton, N.
Jersey.
AT an Agricultural Fair recently
held in Saline County, Missouri,
the American flag was t,kcn down
and torn to pieces. This is the
kind of people our Conversative
friends think arc ill.uscd because
they are not represented in Con,
gress.
Peter enbarger, an old pio.
neor, died at his residence in Madi.
son County, Ohio, on the Goth of
September last, aged eighty. three
years. lie omigrated to Ohio in
1907, with $1,000, His estate is
estimated at 100000, His farm
consisted of a tract of5,OOO acres.
The rebel element in Southwest
ern Virginia has grown very bitter
and defiant lately, of which
the following is sufficient evidence.
Soon after the Ohio elections,
committee ofcitizens, in one of the
towns, called on the officer in COM
mand, and requested that negroes
might bc prevented from display
ing tho Union flag, as the sight Of
it was very distasteful to the re.
spectacle portion ftho community