The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-31
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Court. The man was a white cit
izon.
The Ohio Conference on. E.
church, has about one hundred
and fifty ministers, and not a med.
ern Democrat in the wholenumber.
The -Four Fights is the reigning
toast of the workingmen of London;
Eight hours work and eight hours
play, Eight hours sleep and eight
shillipgs a day."
An immense gathering at Cooper
Institute, N. T. on the 10Th, ratified
the Union nominations ofthe State
and endorsed the nomination OF
Grant for the Presidency.
A 1isping man was heard sing
ing this morning When Thurman
marched down to the thea Thur
man marched down to see he was
elected, but he couldn't see it.
In jackson county, the vote for
Treasurer was a tie, 1870 for the
Democrat and $40 for the Repub.
lican candidate. They cast los
for it, and the Democrat obtained
the office.
A Minnesota paper acutely re.
marks: "Miles O'Reilly asserts
that twice as many Democrats
went to tho war as Republicans
Does Miles mean for us to count
both armies 2"
Nearly four thousand artificial
Elegs have been furnished by Uncle
Sam to his soldiers. One thousand
are still to be supplied. Twothou-
sand two hundred arms have also
been supplied, nine feet, and fifty.
five hands.
| The New York Tribune says -
"What comfort it is to have q
President whom one can't even
serenade for fear he should disgrace
himself in making a speech i As
Artemus Ward would say, Mr..
Johnson is sweet boom"
Ohio is now the chief wool grow
ing state, having 6,569,O52 sheep,
out of 80, sos, ,797 in the whole Uni.
ted States. In 1866 the live stock
of Ohio, was valued atSl51 900, 900,
which is greater than any othcr
state except New York.
The venerable mother of Gen
eral Garfield, seventy years old, on
Friday night drove burglar from
her house in Huron, Portage coun-
ty, at the muzzle of a revolver. A
smart old lady to bo the mother OF
general.
The postofilce has again become
charge upon tho treasury, the
expenditures in that department for
the fiscal year exceeding its income.
This is attributed to the opening OF
numerous Southern mail routes,
which at present are not self.sus
tanning. ..' : .Hai-a
The counterfeitors of the 7-30s
are reported to have been discov,
cred. They had their headquar-
ters in Philadelphia. One of them
named Cooper was recently arrest.
cd for showing 10 and 20 dollar
counterfeit bank notes.
The Dayton Journal has an &C
count of the opening of a mine OF
Yellow Ochre in German township,
Montgomery county, which prom
iscs to be very valuable. About
two thousand pounds per day are
being removed. .t
At the lakes in the northern
part Of Maine tho snow fell to the
depth of ten inches last month
AT Rumford, Oxford county, there
we're four inches, which remained
on the ground and roofs of build.
ings all day, an occurrence never
known before in tho month of Sep.
tember. t
The Washington gossips AFRO all
fully occupied with story about
the separation of Senator Sumner {
and wife. Thisllady, it is said, has c
abandoned her husband and will y
go to Europe and assume her .
maiden name, to which it is said {
she is fairly entitled.
A bce.treo was cut down last
Saturday, inside the city limits OF
Pomeroy, 0. The tree was chest |
nut oak, about two feetin diameter,
and yielded a bountiful supply of
luscious honey. Tho bees took 9
possession of it about year ago,
Fifteen of the National Banks q
have suspended, and passed into
the hands OF Recelvors. Eight OF c
them are in the State OF New York,
one in Now England, one in Penn.
sylvania, and the other five in the
slave States--not ono in the Great
Northwest. The bill.holders lose \
nothing, Of course. :
A letter was sent to the u. s. u
Treasury from Urbana, Ohio, some, n
timo ago, containing Sl9,S34, No.
name oreXplanation was appended,
and knowingo of no other disposi,
ton to make Of it, tho money has
been added to the'conscience fund"
Itis officially ANNOUNCED that the
centenary contributions of the "
Methodist Episcopal churches, as .
far as heard from, exceed four mil y
lions OF dollars and it is estimated,It'
that when the Western conferences 81
aro heard from the whole sum will 8
nearly reach six and one half mil. d
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