Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-12
News of the Day.

News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS. i
GoLp closed in New York Saturday at
1881.
~ GRANT clubs. are being organized in
Cleveland, Ohio. $3.50 -,--+ -.
A LARGE rolling mill for the manufacture
of nails is to be established in Danyille. Pa.
A STATE Soldiers Orphan Home is to be
bnilt at Bloomington, Ill, at cost of
$4,000.
TEN burglaries, or attempts at burglary,
occurred on Sunday night at Lancaster, Pa.
OVER 100000 kegs of lager have been
made in Milwaukee, during the past year.
Mrs. JESSIE BENTON FREMONT is report
ed to be writing book.
LAND is offered to settlers near Jackson
vile, Florida, at fifty cents an acre.
SENATOR JAMES GUTHRIE who has been
seriously Hin Louisville. is now able to
ride out daily. 4.cs.A
THREE persons were present at temper,
ance meet ing, called recently in Tensa,i
parish, Louisiana. e9a egrg;s.E
Four geologists were lost for day and
night In the woods near New Albany, Ind,
last week. M Fg z
AN individual in Brooklyn, New York
turned his two little children out of door,
in the storm last Sunday night.
az IT Is announced thst woman's right
weekly paper is to be started by three maid
en- ladies at Terre Haute, Indiana.
PRAIRIE fires are unusually numerous
and destruc tive in Kansas this season, ow-
ing to the long drought.
A NEW translation of the interminable
: and inevitable sNihelungen Lied" is to be
undertak en- by several learned professors
in Jena.
IT is stated that boxes of common house
flies have been exported to New 2 aland by
7 the English settlers to exterminate the ma
tive New Zealand blue bottle. 81
In Brooklyn, New York, few days
since, family of eight persons was dis
covered all sick in bed with fever, withous
"a morsei of food or sufficient clothing.
Ia WAITER in an Albany restaurant
knocked a man down and broke his leg the
other day, because he had muttered an in
timation that his steak was over-done.
The Chicago Tribune will in the sprinal
put up handsome and large marble from
building on the corner of Dearborn and
Madison streets, Chicago.
Four American prima donnas are now
singing in Europe. Patti, Kellogg, Laura
Harris and Jenny Van Zandt. The last
named lady is the daughter of Signor Blitz.
THE storm of last Tuesday week washed
away sixty feet of the island at Atlantic
;City, N. j., and spoilt the building of the
lighthouse cottage near that spot. 1t must
beremoved to a more secure position.
=. A SPECIAL cable dispatch says that after
his. recent defeat, Garibaldi made no ad-
dress to his men at parting, and looked
'old, haggard and disappointed" There
were no French troops in the battles.
A COUPLE from the country put up at
the Bay State House, in Worcester, Mass,
on Saturday, and upon going to bed blew
out the gas-jet. They were found insensi-
BILE in the morning, and their lives were
saved with difficulty.
AT recent meeting 1.-THE grand jury at
Cork, Ireland, it was discovered, when too
late, that witnesses had been sworn on a
copy of Thomas A 'Kempis instead of the
Bible, and the proceedings had to be re-
peated. s-ss
BY official returns to the city authorities,
it appears that there are 1,590 retail liquor
shops in st. Louis. Of these 1,153 are kept
by Germans and 2l0 by Irish. The city
obtained revenue of $1,000 from licenses
and taxes on sales the past year. S-'+
The propeller Georgia, for the possession
of which the United States has been sue
ing jacob Thompson, at Hamilton, Canada,
was on Tuesday turned over to the former
by the decision of the Court, and the bill
against Thompson was dismissed with
costs.
PURITAN legislation lately got a backset
in, Pennsylvania, by the Supreme Court de-
Gliding that street cars running on Sunday
were apublic convenience, not to be abated
By law which makes the company liable
to fine, and Imprisonment for running
them. NJ NssS0 -Na>sAA@ N1se ae AAe'e
Two veteran printers-Charles McDevitt
and Thurlow weed-met Saturday even
ing at New York for the first time in fifty
years. In 1916 they were journeymen
together. Mr.. McDevitt was compositor
and Mr.. Weed a pressman upon the first
tracts published by the American Tract
Society. SlL -
To show the fertility of French pens, it
is stated that M. Champfleury has publish-
ed forty volumes, M. Capefique one hum
dred octave volumes, M. Ellie Berthet fifty
novels, and M. Brisebarre seventy-eight
plays. Quality, of course, is to great ex-
tent sacrificed to quantity. f2
M. DE CLosMADEUc has discovered in
small desert island in the Bay of Morbidan,
France, more than sixty obelisks of gran
lite, forming a regular circle of $50 meters
in circumference. A curious fact is that
only one-half of this Cromlech, which is
supposed to have been a Druidcal altar, is
now on dry land, owing to the encroach-
ments of the sea. u-as
81 shall die happy" said the expiring
husband to the wife whowas weeping most
dutifully by the bedside, :. if you will only
promise not to marry that object of my
unceasing jealousy, your cousin john,
MAKE yourself quite easy" said the agon-
lied widow, 81 am engaged to his brother''
THE North German Parliament has
unanimously requested the executive to
put down public gambling throughout the
confederation This makes it certain that
the establishments at Wiesbaden, Ham-
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