Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-20
Nsw- Of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS,

GENERAL NEWS 3
GoLD closed yesterday evening, at 1851
TIE Neso Fork World denies the report
that yellow fever prevails as an epidemic
on the Isthmus of Panama.
AMoSGsrsother novelties promised dur
ing the continuance of the Paris Exhibi-
tioH, is aswimming match across the Chan
mel. s.F83 > asezg - s1Aas
Ex-GovERNoR BRowN, Judge Dawson
and'A. w. Walker, OF the Supreme Court
of Georgia, have been admitted to the bar
Of Che United States Supreme Court.
AN insane German guhsmith in Michigan
swalloweda q silver watch chain about foot
long and three-eighths of an inch across
theslinks, under the impression that he was
commanded TO do so by the Saviour. ts
VIRGINIA has laid tax on oysters taken
from tue waters of the State. This has had
the effect to decrease the price by little
more than. the amount. Of tax. Norwalk
people are indignant. hf.i - sr.- eJ
SEvENTY-Two deaths occurred IN two
Dublin (IrelandD workhouses between the
10th and 2lst Of january, among those ad-
mitted within few days before, after ex-
treme suffering from cold and want OF
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THE West Virginia Legislature has voted
to remove the State capital to Morgantown,
Monongahela county. This town is situated
on the Monongahela river, two hundred
andSninety-ffve miles northwest OF Rich
mond. -,sA-
T-:1%..,ov,+ry -e;v,oo y.onnro oh +r,
the Scene Of desolation' now reignfng in the
Yorkshire (England) valleys has been wit
messed : the sudden thaw has created such
an inundation as exceeds even the disas-
trous flood of 1861.
IN an ARRAY at a ball in Fredericksburg,
Virginia, on Friday. night Adam Mitzell
was shot and dangerously wounded by
Sergeant. Young, of the Twelfth Regulars.
Another man, named Marl0W, was shot in;
the breast, not dangerously, and brother
of Mitzeil was wounded in the hand. 7 p.
THE italian Government having. sent the
Collar of the Order of the Annunciada to
Count Bismarck, the Prussian Government
sent in. return the grand Gordon of the
Order of the Black Eagle to Baron Ricasoli
andt0 .Yisconto Venosta.9ls HgE H9E98t
THE New York Stock Exchange held
meeting last Friday morning and passed
the following resolutions: ~ -
s.Resotued, That a donation of 5000 be
made for the purchase of food and other
necessaries of life for the suffering poor
of the SeutA, and that the same be placed
for that purpose In the hands of the South
ern Relief Commission"
'LITTLE PATTI" had bouquet given her
in Germany which was in the form of
life-size statue of herself, with an imperish-
able necklace of precious stones around the
neck. OF course only an American or
Russian could have done SO absurd a bit Of
munifcence, and this was by an American.
GEx.GRIFFIN, Assistant Commissioner of
theFreedmen's Bureau for Texas, has pub
lished a general order, repeating certain
orders of his predecessors, the general et-
feet of which is to anbals all restrictions
upon freedmen's labor contracts, and mere
ly to impose on Bureau agents an advisory
duty and the fling aef duplicate copies of
those contracts. All criminal cases in
which freedmen are concerned are to- be
left to the civil authorities. * OFT