Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-19
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an GENERAL NEWS asa
Gold closed in Cincinnati yesterday even
ing at 1874. 1
,MoCLELLAN is about to visit Northern
Italy. .Ess r.zsz sEg.aa -z.-,.s,s OH ~
THE Russian Emperor is believed to have
spent over 100000 day while in Paris.
The Democrats have been successful in
North Kingston and East Greenwich
Rhode Island. @
A WHOLE colored congregation, includ-
ing pastor and deacons, has lett Macon'
Georgia, for Liberia. =aqtisl sraessaa asl
THs Illinois Post, the German Republic
can paper of Springfield, has given up the
ghost-died for want of patronage.
REy. FATHER RUPERT has been consecra-
ted Abbot for the province Of Minnesota.
He is thus made one of three mitred abbots
in this country. = - = So
THE Union Pacific Railroad will be open
to Julesburg on the 2lth inst, leaving less
than two hundred miles of staging to Dem
yer. ~ ~ -,ss-
The Royal Geographical Society of Eng
land has awarded the Victoria gold medal
for Arctic discovery to DR.. l. I. Hayes, au-
thor of THE Open Polar Sea-" a.. q
The capital invested in agriculture in
England amounts to 9S,3lL00o,oOo, return
ing profit of 13 per cent; the capital in
vested in manufactures is f2ls,oO0000, and
the annual profit 120 per cent.
THE first peaches of the season have been
offered for sale at the Erie Railroad depot
in Jersey City, at the price of one dollar
and half apiece. How much it costs to
look at them is not stated. M.
IT is stated that the paper money now in
use in Italy was made in the United States.
The country has certainly acquired wide
spread reputation as successful manufac-
turer OF paper currency. .-.,..
A PRETTY little Jewish prima donna in
Brussels was courted by a young lawyer
and finally married him in consideration of
his embracing the Jewish persuasion.-
Such persuasion as she offered he was too
willing to em brace.
THE Eureka cotton mills in Houston
Texas, turn out about a thousand yards of,
cloth daily. 1t saves a vast deal of trans
portation of Texas cotton to Northern man
ufactories.
The casualties at the boiler explosion in
Philadelphia were twenty killed. eight
missing (probably killed and still in the
ruinsl, and seven wounded. Eight of the
inmates of the building escaped.
THE loss of life attending the sinking of
the Governor Sharkey has not yet been as
certained. A Athofough investigation of the
catastrophe is to be made, and it is said that
the insurance will not be paid.
ST. JoHN's Day. June al. is to be grand
event for the Masonic fraternity in Boston.
Their new Temple is to be dedicated. tits
expected there will be full 10000 of the
brethren In the procession. Between
twenty and thirty encampments of Tenn
plars have already accepted invitations to
be present. besides innumerable Blue
Lodges.
THEf following are among the signs over
the shops of negro traders at Fort Smith,
Arkansas: "Camphin And burnin
fiewid.n @Ches Nuts billed and Roar.''-l
sCain sect cheers Rs seeted Hear
"Woshing, ironin & goin out doin dais
works dun here" rF
THEY havs an ugly case on hand up at
Mt. Gilead. A short time ago married
man, named Decker, enticed Miss Rachel
Ann Bailey from her home and took her to
Marion, where, as she afterwards testified,
he drugged and ravished her. On her evil
dence he was indicted for rape. Atterward.
on the 18th ult., the girl was at the house
of Deeker's wife, at dinner there, returned
home, and died the same evening, with
symptoms which strongly Indicated pois-
oning by strychnine. The chemists have
the case in charge.
- STATE NEWS.