The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-05

james Bray Of Skowheear
Maine, weighs 40 pounds, and
not twenty-one years ofages
a Southern barber wants tho
"championsbipg for shaving twelve
mon In twenty-five minutes
'TboJacEsonville (Fh) Msrcufs
says that oranges arc the most pro-
Fi'ablc crop grown IN that State.
The Grant Clubs Of Philadelphia
have all declared for Secretary Stan
ton for Vice rtosident.
A Yankee has purchased an island
in the Ohio river and stocked ii
with black cats, to raise tho animals
forthe sake ofthe fur. a
The Committee on Ways and
Means in the House have agreed
to report in favor Of a repeal Of the
cotton tax.
North Carolina has given, $4,000
majority in favor Of a Convention,
and elected alarge majority Of Rad
icals as delegates. =
Ii. B. CLAFEIN g. Co.. ofINew
York, during the year 1865, sold
s73 100000 worth Of dry goods
the largest years business Of any
house in the world.
The Des Moihes Regist.r, the lead
ing Republican paper of Iowa, de.
cIares for Gen. Grant for the Pres:
idency, and tits said oil the other
Republican papers in the State will
follow suit.
By the termso the law the labor
of electjug a U. s. Senator comes
on the second Thlrsday afterits or
ganization, Jan, 14tb, and in case
no election is bad, oIe vote day
must be taken for Senator, until
the matter is decided.
If Presidential electors bad been
chosen at the recent elections, the
result would have been the choice
of l40 Republican, and SO Demo
cratic electors, omiltiDg Oregon,
Nebraska and Nevada from the
count.
d new Pacific Railroad is u be
urged upon Congress at the pres
eat session. Tho PROPOSED line
commences at the Mississippi Riv-
er, and passes through Minnesota,
Montana, Dakota, ard Oregon, 70
the Pacific.
A specimen modal Of the propos-
ed international coin of rs francs,
recently struck by the Government
Of France, has been presented TO
the President, through Mr.. Samuel
B. Ruggles. 1t is very slightly lar
ger than our bali eagle. %
Returns from Florida show that
tho Convention has been carried
by decided majority Of the reg
istered voters. Nearly all the
blacks voted, aud but few whites
A large number of negroes are cleo
| tod to the Convention.
General Thomas Ewing, Jr., in
letter to friend, says: IL hope
to unite with my army friends in
supporting General Grant for Pres
lidont, but | want FIRST to know
whether he approves Of the recon-
structiou measures for if he does,
can not support him..
Official returns of the Wisconsin
election show that the total vote is
72,6l5 Republican aDd 6S,eG3DeT-
ocrat, aggregAting l42, ,47S, the larg-
est vote ever cast in the State, ex-
cept in 1860 and 1864, and S7,S47
more than were given at the last
gnberngtorial election.
There are $3.50 miles Of railroad
in Ohio, owned by companies vhose
capital stock is s92,529.5l5. The
debts Of these companies amount
to s72, 100, ,3S9 SO. In operating
the roads, 1881 persons are en-
ployed, and there were LOG persons
killed, and 14l injured by railroad
accidents during the year.
Official reports show that the
Government has lost, by the non
collection of the whisky tax alone,
the past year, upward of one hun
dred million dollars. The loss on
tobacco is set down at twenty-five
million dollars. The losses are
attributed to corruption and mis-
management Of collectors.
Fifteen of the National Banks
have suspended, and passed into
the hands OF Receivers. Eight Of
thom are in the State Of New York,
one in New England, one in Penn
sylvania, and the other Eve in the
slave Statesmen one in the Great
Northwest. The bill-holdeFs lose
nothing, of courses
The Committee on Elections will
report in favor Of admitting Mcssrs.
Jones, Beck and Gollady, OF tho
Kentucky delegation, to seats in
the House; and it is believed all
the other members from that Stato
will be admitted except John v.
Young.
A man named Spencer and his
wife, who lived in aristocratic style
at Pauisboro, New Jersey, were ar
rested recently on charge ofcoun-
terfeiting United States seven-thir-
ty Treasury notes, 1t is estimated
that they and their confcderates
have made more than = million of
, dollars. Mrs. Spencer deposited
: $40, 600, in cash, as bail for herself
} and husband, at Newark, where
they were examined.