Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-28
N ews of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.


GoLp closed in New York Saturday at
.14lA
The London Telegraph styles Admiral
Farragut the "Nelson of America"
AN exchange says that about one out of
every fifty newspapers started in this coun-
try reaches the paying point.
The old rumor about Napoleon's insan-
ity, has been revived. If true, his mad
ness is more than match for other mems
wit
ONE day last week, the Lawrence (Mass.)
Savings Bank received $22, 1000 in deposits
from 1S5 persons.
THERE are $4,000 Chinese in California,
and majority of the Californians would
like to get rid of them.
Two counties in Ohio gave tie votes in
the recent election, and four Others gave
majorities of less tha 20 for either party.
IT is stated that Charles A. Dana's new
morning paper will be called "The Tele-
graph" and sell for two cents.
:, IT is stated that typhoid fever is very
prevalent at New Haven, and many of the
A BLACK EAGLE, measuring seven feet
four inches across the wings, was shot at
Waltham, VT, a few days since.
A WOMAN of respectable standing in
the public streets of that city the other
day, because he refused to marry to suit
her wishes. .--
Mr.. BEEcHER, describing President Lin
coins features, says they "looked like
chance travellers putting up together at an
inn, rather than relations met in the family
circle.'
HERE is sample of numerous sentences
in Miss Evens' novel of Macaria: "Perish
the microcos m in the limitless micro
cosm. and sink the feeble earthly aggre-
gate in the boundless, rushing, choral ag-
gregation."
,AT Antwerp, recently, nursemaid near
youthful charges-a boy of eight. She had
occasion to reprimand him, when he flew
into race aud stabbed her in the thigh
with penknite.
A DRAWING is on exhibition in Boston,
said to have been executed by silk weav-
er in England. who, with his body para
lyzed below his neck, learned to draw with
remarkable skill. holding the pencil in his
mouth.
A BAvARIAN JOURNAL announces that,
with view of counteracting the influence
of the unreliable reports that are afloat, it
will hereafter publish the most notable
falsities under the heading Of "a Bulletin
of Lies.''
THE steamer Gulf City was rendered un-
manageable by gale in the Gulf of Mex
leo, recently, and her crew were preparina 9
to abandon her, when the steamer Monte.
rey came in sight and saved her, by towing
her to New York.
THE Professors of the University of Var.
zorin. Poland, have received instructions
from the Gar of Russia to conduct the
studies of the institution in the Russian
language. AS not one of the Professor,
is acquainted with the language, havins
been educated as Poles, they are some
what embarrassed.
Two MEN recently died suddenly at ,
Canadian tavern, after drinking a cup o
coffee. The landlady called the police
who suspected her of poisoning the men
She protested she had not, and to prov
the harmlessness of the coffee, drank
cup herself, when she also fell down dead
An examination of the coffee-pot showed
that bunch of matches had been boilin.
with the coffee.
A SINGULAR suicide case occupied a cor
oner's attention, on October 9th, in Lon
don. The subject of the inquiry, Ann Bot
ten, had been for the last twenty years 6
most confirmed drunkard, and had sue.
ceeded, after four attempts, in putting ar
end to her miserable existence. 1t wa.
found that she had from time to time at.
tempted suicide by cutting her throat
drinking paraffin, opening vein in the
arm' and strangulation by means of q
handkerchief.