Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-29
News OF the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

GOLD closed in New York Satul day al
1928.
THE pecan-nut crop in Texas, this year
has been destroyed by caterpillars.
NOVEMBER 2SrH has been appointt d
Thanksgiving Day in Maine.
ANOTHER case of girl-flesEing is re-
ported in the Cambridge Massachusetts,
schools.
TIE force of workmen at the Spring
field Armory has been reduced to six hun
dred.
NJ FoMERoD, President of the Swiss
Confederation, has resigned his office that
he may attend to his private business.
THERE are five candidates for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor of New
Hampshire.
COMPLAINTS are made of the persecution
of the American missionaries in Upper
Egypt by the Coptic Patriarch.
ENGLISH contractors are about to begin
the construction of a railroad from Indian
ola to San Antonio, Texas.
ST. PAUL is now connected by rail with
Chicago. The distance, 443 miles, is run in
20 hours.
INDIANA appropriates $l,325,3 1866 for pub
l., instruction this year-an average of
$2.35 to each chill.
FoURTEENsbundred bales Of cotton " ere
AIKEN from Savannah by one vessel last
week, the largest shipment since the close
of the war.
IT is stated that most of the workmen on
the Antietam National Cemetery have be en-
discharged for want of funds.
IT is that the matrimonial engagement
between the King of Bavaria and the
Datchess Sophia has been broken off ''by
mutual accord"
A Mrs. H. L. LEONARD recently shot a
bear near the Katahdin (Me.) Iron Works.
The animal, when dressed, weighed 800
pounds.
Mrs. RACHEL BROWN, 95 years OF age. is
is still able to pursue her favorite occupa-
tion of weaving, and can read the Bible
without the aid of glasses.
The horse which Colonel Thomas Ben
ton rode through the whole of the MeXi-
can war, lately died at New London, Ct,
aged thirty six. He was formerly owned
by Joseph Bonaparte, and at his death by
Sidney Miner.
AMATEUR farming seldom or never pays.
A gentleman of Taunton, Mass, who raised
his own potatoes this year, kept a correct
account of all the expenses, and finds that
they cost him $4.6S per bushel-four times
the m lrket price.
NINE. SoURKoF has just received the de-
gree of Doctor of Medicine from the Uni
versity of Zurich. She is Russian by BIRTH
and studied at st. Petersburg until the
Russian Government forbade tine confer
ring of degrees in medicine upon women.
Sr. LOUIS, it is announced, is preparing
a large skating rink, to accommodate one
thousand skaters, and having seats for tour
thousand spectators. The owners of our
Philadelphia Skating parks are also get
ting them ready for the approaching sea-
son.
CRIMES are on the increase in this coun-
try, but not in proportion, by any means,
to the increase of the population. Boston
is relatively more moral now than it was
three score years ago, according to the tes-
mony of honest, old inhabitants.-Boston
Transcript.
THE Paris member of the house of Roths-
child received the news of Garibaldts ar
rest an hour and half before the first
meagre dispatch reached the French Min
istry of Foreign Affairs. With this bit OF
knowledge he made $l,0O0.OOO at the
Bourse during the afternoon.
AN ingenious arrangement for raising
water is on exhibition in New York, and it
is said supplies the power for a flour mill
in Virginia. The process is to introduce
steam-the exhaust OF non-condensing
engine is sufficient-into reservoir con-
nected by pipe with supply of water
below, and then, by jet of water, to con-
dense the steam, creating a vacuum which
is instantly filled with water to be dis
charged into a f1ume or reservoir, from
which it is carried to the water wheel.