Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-09
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GOLD closed yesterday evening, at 1915
sTHERE is deficiency in the city treasury
of Philadelphia of three millions of doll
lars, The city is powerfully Radical. ss
WHEN an organ grinder appears in front
of yonr door it is not sign Of the near ap-
proach of Italian climate, but prospect OF
italian airs. H- g.. ,-,s-.. 500 2
al WOMAN in st. Louis advertises for q
girl who knows q fap-jack from q boot
'iack,n and who viii not "wash her feet in
the dish-tub instead of the wash-tub." = ~ !,
JuDafNG from the accounts. in the Re
publican papers the most creditable thing
done by the last Congress was sbreaking
up."s.a1 > gsBEz ea.k,zx8z
THE heir to the throne of Italy is to be
married to Matilda, daughter Of the Arch-
duke Albert, of Austria, who was victo-
rious over Victor Emanuel at Custozza. s's'
GEORGE B2NcRoFT, the historian, keeps
a printer and a press in bis house, and has
his copy set before he gives it the first care
fai Correction. ~ S9SsS % .1M IA
"A PANS letter says: Cousins death
seems to have cast a pail over all artistic
and philosophical ambitions, and those
critics who are not quarreling for his place
in tbs. Academy, are telling stories Of the the
dead folk.ss .es4aas7 lj.s -. sszstsl 10 y
III St. Paul negro 'sboy in blue" slept
out in the cold four nights without a root,
within one square OF where Tlton was lee
turingon humanity and the elevatien of the
'sman and brother" i'-eaSi
sFHrEEE hundred men are ehopping wood
on the plains forthe Union Pacific railroad.
Their wives and families camp out with
them, and are provisioned by the contrac-
tOf. 81 Z a. Il
An unknown man, probably insane, who
had occupied an uninhabited house at Port
lands Kys fer tive days, without fire or
Eood, assailed with brickbats the police
men who undertook, on wednesday last
to eject him. Jwhereupon theYofieers shot
him, and he. was not expected to recover.
Two United States revenue detective off,
ceFShave been arrested at Traverse Cily,
AEfosEtS@u,7 yu O rtIe-eez of eo7eriracY. Tha y
are said to have arrested people for alleged
violation Of the Revenue laws and settled
by extorting exorbitaDt sums of money
from the frightened victims.
The first water was let into the Chicago
tgnnel on the 27th nongh only TO sweep
out the smaller debris. The experimental
flooding VIII be 1pfotracted through several
days, if not weeks, with a view to thor
ough testing of every portion of the struc-i
,tlne.3 The5city win he supplied through
the new channel, if it goes well, in about
four weeks. zs& = 8 - s5kJiBe2812%
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DURIsG the last statistical year there
were granted 1,169 divorces in Ohio, the
largest proportion being up IN Cheesedom.
THE Advertiser says the city council of
Tiffin has contracted for one of Silby's
rotary steam fire engines, to be completed
in three months, and to cost $500.
ALBERT BARNITz, late Major of the Sec
ond Ohio Cavalry, has been confirmed as
Captain in the Seventh United States Cav
airy. - = =
,Ma. VAN HETDE, of Circleviile. has
been appointed Inspector of Distilled Spir-
its. under the provisions of the Internal
Revenue law.
THE ashland Union says /: Welearn from
= M. w. Bentz, Of Orange township, thaton
Monday last he made eighty-six pounds of
nice sugar from twelve barrels of sap. Can
any one beat that?
The 0leUeIdnd Herald says there is a"hap-
py couple" in that city, whos after being
married six weeks, concluded lite of sim
r,la
cordingly separated. aal5sggts gqarv
Col. HAINEs, of Fremont, Democratic
soldier, has been displaced from his Office,
and a .'loyaln stay named Ander-
asOh, appointed IN his place. Oh! how they
do love the soldier! -ss as-esl.eze
sT SURGEON CHARLES McDoUGALL, who is
snatiye of Chillicothe, and has been in the
Regular Army for 35 years, hae been pro-
NOTED to Assistant Medical Purveyer, with
tue rank k7of Lieutenant Colonel He ison
duty at Philadelphia.
WEDNESDAY nightlast, says the Napoleon
Northeast, difficulty. occurred between
John West and Ira Pickens at Liberty Cen
Ter, in this county, in. which West was
severely stabbed witha pocket-knife, twice
in the breast and once in the abdomen.
3sEOUR enterprising stock raiser, DIR. A.
Wolf, of this place, says the Vinton Record,
has recently purchased, at cost of $1,000,
We are Informed, two Cashmere goats, for
the Improvement OF his stock in the wool
growing line.
1T has been ascertaincd that of the pop
uIation of Cleveland, Sc per cent. are Ger
man, % per cent. American. 10 per cent.
Irish, 8 per cent. English, 2 per cent. Bo-
,hemians, per cent. each Scotch, French
and Dutch, and the remaining 2 per cent.
divided among sixteen other nationalities.
AN affray occurred at the village of Pal
estine, Pickaway county, on Saturday last,
between a couple of young men named
Ketchum : and Clark When the former
struck the latter a blow on the head with
piece of wood, which it is said has proved
fatal. azs7asN 1e ugs1 esf z ssasssfS
On ThursdeY last, about noon, says the
St0sx County Nescs, Mr.. Wesley Toner COM
mitted suicide, in this place, by emitting his
throat Witha razor, in his brothers (James
Toner stable, who lives on Poplar street.
He had been missed buta few minutes, and,
NOT coming when called TO dinner, his
hrother went to the barn and found him
reIfefing in his blood-dead-and the razor
still grasped in his right hand.