Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-06
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-aa STEd ysdf 81 ----f,- eli bGs eadi9d1l
aids al a,toiu GFNERAL NEWS. Tol bs9ru1nI
G9IR closed in Aswl York, yesterday at
14O]S. o4s7aF, ,aro,l
3 PRESIDENT PoLKis black body servant is
talked of for the Tennessee legislature, to
which. 1t tis,consolatory to reflect, heoean
searcely ysdo any discredft. a . ID mon .F.s
THE crop fofSwheat't thisiyear is estimated
at the comfortabfs 1fgdre of 225,0O0. 900,
bushels-sa grain OF eomfertfor poor folks.
= A PIrrsFtELD, Massachusetts. woman
wore S3o.000 worth of diamonds at we'd
ding party lately. Her husband was .
quartermaster ofaths loyal .stripe.e sespk
Tn, internal revenue collections 10 New
York city have decreased nearly six ril-
Hons and 4 halt Of dollars within the past
year. -sua1Hf
..nnNoRTHERN knaves are selling land scrip
to the Georgia negroes. They pnrport to
be good when Government confiscates.
"a WOMAN writes to the Springfield Mass3
Republican to advise all women to carry
reveiyersl to protect themselves and their
daughters from the attacks of ruffans.
Society in New. England must he terribly
aaA;1rai; 1adH Il .nBi.li7fiE - .a3iih .sneH d-lI
uemorallzeu. .z9uif 4 lnsiiii " ban
THE president has 7nnder consideration
the propriety Of calling the five district
commaudersltoy Washington, SO that they
may confer with each other and with the
Executive relative to the execution of the
Reconstruction acts, and determine, as near
as may be, upon uniform rules of action
and practice. - -. III 1900,
81 II. has been discovered that Abraham
Elom, an old man formerly living alone in
Crawford county, Missouri, whose remains
were found in the smoHldering ruins of his
own honse, in March last, and who was
supposed to have been burned to death,
was first robbed and then murdered, by a
villain named Shouks, and two aceompli-
ces, who set the house on fire to conceal
the crime. They have all been arrested.
THIS croton iAqueduct Board are con-
structing new reservoir at Boyd's Corner,
fa Putnam county, II miles from New
York, which will be used for the purpose
Of kseping up a supply of water for Gro
ton lake. This reservoir will cover an
area of three hun dred and three acres, and
viii have a capacity of 3.369, ,206ss57 gall
lons!lDThe damiwill be seven hundred feet
ifFieupth. feet in. riebtt. and six
hundred feet above tide water. 1t istwenty-
three and three quarter miles above Gro
tondam. ~ $50 ,a,m. ia,sis .igolq
THE new Royal Albert HaIE of Arts and
Sciences is said BY English writers to be a
mennmen5 5ofsnational folly. . Its immensi.
ty entirely units It for the pur pose con
templated. It will be eleven times the size
Of Drury Zane Theater or eight times that
ofHWestminsteriH Hall. A church OF ordi-
nary dimensions might stand on its floor
IT'S dsteeple would not 3reaeh the ceiling,
which is one hundred and thirty-eight feet
on the clear in hight: The human voice
cannot fill such q space. alsk ,ai5I t7YfH
.AFhE large number of Smiths developed
bvthe new city directories, reminds one of
sFsS0fy toidTof a wae rushing into thea
TIE and cryfhe oat, aM r. Smith, your house
IS on fire !,' whereupon oseventy-five per.
sons fose to their feet. Desiring to be more
explicit, the wag Qualified his assertion by
stating that the owner of the burning pile
wasJohn smith, whereupon fifty Smiths
: resumed their SEATS and the remainder
faisHedu tut Of the building toward theil
rsspectiyeres Yssis .laibl 7slagos SAT- OF
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3 had 'a- ''sai STATE NEWS. y 4,
THE MahouinoI Courier says: Another
rolling mill project has been organized by
ainhmber roflexperienced workmensin th.
efffpFovso of Messrs.s Brown, BonneH e. Co.
Si1def the firm name of Turner, Glover &
Co The gentlemen composing the firm
-ayeiMrs George Turner.J. IL. Glover. Ben
.iansinWflheini, j. Singer Grover, william
Crawford ana 90 20 Morgan. the latte
named gentleman an beinsp, merchant in this
,This firm will leeate in Terre Hante
dudiana,i and are about erecting a roliiu,
millband lnair. faetbfv1gin which will b,
nlaeed thirtv-two maebines. The citizen
fSfdtbat Mace have offerret the contpannfyF pannfyyFa a
an inducement the use of $40 noo for sew s
SrsJnlVsaFSscg With which Messrs. Turner
Glover ,atn5, e,ag have closed 81 Some Of IN,
members 5nsrIb io oof the firm viii leave Younes
,ls,;td f,,.i,rs "a ", q !, n,
- ersst;an ton Of t,,e9 % wori.s @ he others MI
Morron vo hol;ova ozooaarrtad o-.sa,ro toll,o,.1
T., tto fali n =,
A"ON last Saturday morning about SD
o'elocl; "a little adaughterbof Mr.. Georg
Grassland, OF this city says the II Zanesutls
Courier, aged about eleysn years, while Wis
fling some friends near the County Fai
Grounds, met with q fearful accident.
seems the little girl had climbed up