Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-28
News of the Day.

SATURDAY mORNINGs- DEC 2Ss
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
1885.
The cats in Tallahassee, Florida, are re-
ported to be dying of choleraic disease.
EASTERN FLORIDA has good sugar crop.
The syrup sells at from 80 to 20 cents gall
lon. --4'a
GERMAN is to be taught in the public
schools of Bloomington, Illinois.
CHICAGO now experiences two of the
very vilest kind of divorce cases. f g. u
"FoRrY year old brandy" is manufac-
tured in New York out of Jamaica rum.
THE orange trees at st. Augustine, Flor
ida, are now in full fruitage.
"RINKoMANIA," is word invented by
the Round Table, to signify the skating
frolic.
THE Empire gold mines, near Charlotte,
North Carolina, are said to yield $1,000
week.
TwENrY-FIvs THOUSAND pounds of rais-
ins were produced by one farmer in Cali
fornia last year. tEA
AN assistant county Judge, in Addison,
Vt. has been arrested for beating his horse
to death.
THE Irish Wdtchmdn" is the title of a
paper to sppear at Burlington, VT, in
few weeks.
TIE American Print works, at Fall
River, Mass, burned few days since, are
to be Immediately rebuilt. About three
hundred men are clearing away the ruins.
A srLESDIp cotton plantation of two
thousand acres in Franklin county, N. c.,
was sold lately for two dollars and five
cents an acre.
SIX evening papers have been born in In
danapolis in the last ten years, all of which
have expired at ages varying from three
days to five years.
New LONDON, Connecticut, has given up
its town liquor agency. individuals now
do most of the liquor selling in Connect
icus, as in other latitudes.
CHARLES KEAN will soon have his fare
we'll benefit at Drury Lane Theater in LON
don. He has been forty years upon the
stage, and has had the usual number of
fare wells. sea 2'3 81
The Hibernian Society of St. Joseph,
Mo-, have passed resolutions denouncing
the American Minister in London for not
taking more efficient measures for the pro-
lection of rights of American adopted citi-,
ms. - q -
The 300 employees in Madame Demor-
est's establishment in New York, were to
have had "paper masquerade" :" last even
ing. All the costumes were to illustrate
antique modes.
NExt to thessreliable gentleman" and the
Intelligent contraband" says a contem-
porary, nothing is so destitute of veracity
asa report of the death or any accident to,
an actor or Snowman. Some of these per-
sons seek notoriety through the currency
OF such reports.
7n- STATE NEWS. sF --.
THE barn of Thomas Madden, who lives
in Springfield township, was burned on
Wednesday night of last week, together
utensils, twenty tons Of hay, and other ar
.ticles. 1t was the work of an incendiary,
and leaves Mr.. Madden almost entirely
stripped of his possessions. So says the
Chillicothe Advertiser.
Two young rowdies, whose names we
did not learn, on Saturday evening last,
says the Hillsboro Gazette, seized hold of,
nd tod 70 q fl,a of
spectacle lady into the alley on the north
of the Gazette block, and insinuated their
foul purpose. The screams of the lady
brought help to her aid, and the scoundrels
escaped without accomplishing their he
nious design. 81,
PATRICK GRAHAM and Edward Roberts,
says the Urbdna Union, had fight in Gra-
hams store at ST.. Paris, last Saturday. The
melee closed by Roberts getting shot in the
mouth. The weapon used was small
pocket pistol, and we are informed that the
shot lodged near the right ear, where it
cannot be extracted without danger of cut
ting he-jugular vein.i The shot took two
front teeth out, beautifully. Graham was
tried before magistrate, who bound him
over in the sum of $1,000.
THE youngest son of Major Downing of
the Weaver House-a lad of two summers
only-slipped and fell on the floor of the
hotel last Thursday afternoon. When he
fell his head struck the buckle on a belt he
had with him: and it is supposed injured
the brain, as he complained of the injury
the following morning. That (Friday)
night he was thrown into convulsions, and
died of congestion of the brain. His re-
mains were inferred at Mechanicsburg on
Sunday. So says the Urbana Union.
On Saturday last the Columbus and Lam
caster coach, says the Lancaster EAGLE, on
its down trip, was tipped over at the rail-
road crossing near Carroll, and Mr.. J. C.
Hartzler, passenger, and the driver quite
seriously injured. Mr.. Hartzler's left fore
arm was broken in two places, but no other
serious injury. The driver had his collar
bone broken. A number of other passen-
gers were more or less bruised, but none
seriously. Mr.. Hartzler was on his way to
spend the holidays with his friends and
relatives in and near Lancaster. He was
able to be moved to the residence of his
mother. few miles east of this city, where
we learn he is recovering as fast as the ma
ture of the injury will permit.
THE eagle, at the Catholic Fair, says the
Ctillicothe Advertiser, which was put up for
choi,e for United States Senator, was won
by the friends of Judge Thurman, and will
Represented to that gentleman. Mr.. VAL
landigham and Ben. Wade received very
handsome vote each, but Judge Thurman's