The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-04-04
CLIPPINGS.

The Richmond Times says that
Gen. Lee has expressed himself in
favor of a Convention.
Lead worth s7,7OO,O 900 has been
taken out from two sections Of land
in Grant county, Wisconsin.
Edwin Forrest has contributed
five hundred dollars 10 the South
ern Relief Fund.
One ofthe fashionable cooks In
New York gets $50 a week, board
and pickings.
Reports from points on the river
above New Orleans, state that the
levees are giving away, and the
whole lower valley will probably be
inundated.
The Constitutional Convention
Bill has finally passed the New
York Legislature. The negro suf
frage clause is omitted.
An act of the Legislature of New
Jersey went into effect on the 9th
ult. prohibiting the whipping Of
children in the public schools.
A bill has passed the New York
Assembly making eight hours le-
gal days work.
Washington dispatches state that
General Grant emphatically denies
having expressed an opinion as to
the adjournment question.
General Sheridan. promulgated
an order, in New Orleans, on the
9th ult removing from Office May.
or Monroe, Judge Abel aad At.
torney General Heron.
General Sweeny, post comuraud-
er at Augusta, Georgia, has issued
an order forbidding all elections
until General Pope assumes COM
mand of the District.
The President has nominated
General Rosseau as Brigadier Gen.
eral in the regular army, vice Rose
Grams, resigned.
The Senate on the 18th ult. reject
ed the nomination of General Frank
Blair as Minister to Vienna, and
that OF General Slocum as Naval
Officer of New York. Frank re-
ceived only six votes.
In Texas fno beeves are selling
from Sl4 to S15 each for specie.
Sheep are selling at 81 so per
head, and pork at two and half
and five cents per pound.
The Temperance law of Ohio
has been so amended as to require
liquor sellers to prove that parties
10 whom they sell liquor are not
minors, or drunk at the time Of
selling.
TheSuperintendent OF public print.
ing sent a report to Congress on
the 14th, in which he announces
that there is deficit in the paper
accounts of his Office, under his
immediate predecessor. of seventy
thousand dollars. Cornelius Wen.
dell was the Superintendent to
March /.
Fifteen hundred men are chopping
wood on the plains for the Union
Pacific Railroad. Their wives and
families camp out with them, and
are provisioned by the contractor.
ADalton (Georgia) paper tells Of
o former planter in Pulaski Coun,
ty, who is employed by one of his
ex.slaves as overseer. Sambo pays
his ole massa' literally, giving him
eight bales of cotton for his services
for the season.
Griffith Roberts, a wealthy drug
merchant in Columbus, committed
suicide by hanging, on Thursday O.
last week. Religious monomanii
is supposed to have been the cause
Miramon, one Of the Imperialist
chiefs in Mexico, has issued a proc.
lamation declaring war of exter
mination-"a duel to the death
with the Juarists.
A Cleveland dispatch says the
house of Mr.. Heckel, at SufielC
Centre, Ohio, was burned, with five
Of his children, on Wednesday
night.
Within the last year, twelve o
the wealthiest and most beautiful
young ladies in Nashville, Tennes
see, have been married to UniteC
States officers.
The family Of Ramsey Hall, IL
Springfield, Massachusetts,, wer'
attacked with the terrible trichin'
disease, after eating freely Of raw
ham, two weeks ago, and after al
illness of several days, a daughte
named Ida died on 25th ult. Th,
mother is'still in a critical eondi
ton.
The Petroleum Centre (Pa., Err
says little girl eight years of ag'
is performing the duties Of an en-
gineer at q we'll on Bennehof run
She il paid SO day, the salary Q
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