Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-01
News OF the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

News OIL the lay
GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York yesterday al
1909.
MRS. EDING, aged one hundred and ont
years, died at her residence, IN Rockcreel
township, Ind, on last Thursday. Hel
husband was soldier in the war of 1872
and died in battle. Mrs. E. was q native o
Virginia.
In Elkhart county, Ind, one Joseph Cole
was recently sentenced to six years i'm.
prisonment for assault with intent to kill
He petitioned for a new trial, which wai
granted, and the sentence was made ten
years.
Mr.. D. B. FORBES, late President of the
First National Bank of New Orleans, was
severely cowhided in Carondelet street, on
the 18th inst, by Mr.. F. Bauer, who LOST
$4,000 by the failure of the bank, which,
he says, ruined him.
AN address to the women of Kansas by
the advocates of female suffrage says that
the great obstacle that they have to con-
tend with is the declaration on the part Of
many good and sensible women that they
do not want to vote. 3
ALEXANDER DUMAS, SR, is said to be en-
gagged on Romeo and Juliet-an "improv-
ed" edition of Shakspeare's play. Dumas
does not know English, but that circum-
stance is, of course, no bar to playwright's
achievements.
THERE lives at Detroit cousin of Gen.
T Toon To Fau
ette. He is 81 years old, served in the war
of 1912, was wounded at Plattsburg, and
had two sons in the Union army during the
rebellion, both OF whom were also wound
ed. The old gentleman is hale and hearty
still.
FIGURES at the photographic Office show
that the power at Rumford. Maine, on the
Androscoggin, due to the known height of
the falls and the estimate volume of water,
is not less than 1854 horsepower at low
water.
The question of how long "return
. ticket" sold by railroad company, is good
for passage, is about to be tested In the
courts. A conductor in Maine is under
arrest for ejecting man, who had no other
ticket, from the cars. The ticket was four
days overdue.
THE Prussian King, WILLIAM, has Sc
cured very handsome addition to his in
come in the English property of the Han
overian Crown. By the treaty of 1714 this
property belongs to the actual ruler OF
Hanover, which King WILLIAM now is.
This property yields an annual revenue OF
about S3.OOO,OO0.
The NeU 7 York Times Washington spe-
cial says the public will recollect that at the
Surratt trial the panel ofjurors in the crimi-
. nal court here was quashed because the law
had not been complied with. To-day
new panel was ordered, and twenty-six
names were drawn. They are all white,
as the law yet includes the word white in
its phraseology. Congress tried to change
it at its last session, but the President pock-
eted the bill.
JAMES SULLIVAN, OF Providence. has
. challenged John Cassidy, OF Hartford, to
climb one hundred poles for one hundred
dollars side against time, and the chal-
lenge has been accepted. The poles are to
be erected forty to a mile, and each man is
to climb far enough to touch the top Of
each, descend, run t. the next, and so on
till the operation is finished. One must do
the whole before the other begins, and the
one performing the task in the shortest
time wins.
AT no period in the history of the coun-
try has there been so many men out of en-
ployment as at the present time. This.
the Ne,o York World says, is the result OF
the policy of the dominant party in keep
ing the affairs of the country in such an
unsettled condition as to almost paralyze
trade and commerce. They are so intent
upon retaining power through the eleva-
tion of the negro in the South that they
are bringing ruin and poverty to the doors
sans in the North.
A FEW days since a corpse was put in
charge of one of the express companies at
Tully, to be forwarded to Bellows Falls,
Vermont. The friends of the deceased
preceded the corpse to Bellows Falls, and
there awaited its arrival, but not bein.
forthcoming the express company was no.
titled and messages sent over the severa:
railroads too look after it. 1t was found il.
near the Central depot, in this city, thit
afternoon. 1t came from Niagara Falls thir
morning, and it is now known that it ha
been to Syracuse, Schenectady, Alban.:
and other points.-Rochester Union, Octo
Der 1S.
A CAPE OF COOP HOPE letter says ths!
the people living in the neighborhood O.
Colesbnrp are in search of diamonds A
number of these precious stones have al.
ready been found, some of them of consid,.
erable value. The first diamond was pick
ed up by a little girl at Hopetown. Hsr
father is laborer on the farm of Mr..
Schalk van Niekerck. She took the dia.
mond to her mother, and the latter, think,
ing it only pretty stone, returned it to the
child to play with. Niekerck happened t.,
see it glitter, and offered to buy it of tb.,
girl, but she gave it to him, saying, laugh
ingly, "Who ever heard of selling stone?"
He took it, and it proved to be damon,
worth s2,5OO.
How the abundance of money has pre- ,
duced poverty in England is explained b.,
the London Scar, which says: There can
unhappily, be no doubt that the Londo,
wholesale houses for all descriptions of
retail goods are unprecedently idle, an.
that implies some great impediment to I'll
free circulation of money among the con
munity. Nor need we wonder at such
state of things when we look to the cond;,.
tion of the money market and find capit.- :
going begging for borrowers at l and 1, !:
Der cent. per annum. To the man viii