Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-31

fact. If Columbus business men are alive
to their interest they will be quick to turn
this opportunity to their advantage.
News of the Day.
OHIO GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York yesterday Al
1887.
Ex SECRETARY STANTON is in Washing
ton, preparing his defense for the Senate
BURLINGTON, Iowa, claims a population
of fifteen thousand.
A NEW YORK paper characterizes Gene
ral Grants sense as reticence.
THE Mormons have started another news
paper called the Deseret Eoening Neaos, edi-
ted by Elder George @. Cannon.
The Wabash river has been at low-water
mark this year for longer time than was
ever known in any previous year.
"A RECENT seizure Of lquorin Augusta,
Me-, is said to have cost the State at the
rate of s75 per pint.
The Wissted {Conn y Herald is now added
to the list of papers supporting Gen. Grant
for President.
The cholera recently appeared at Hamm,
In Prussia, and out of six persons attack
ed in one family, five were dead in few
hours.
AFTER Nav Years day the apotheca-
ries in Warsaw are ordered to use the
Rlssian language in describing their
drugs. -
TaE Italian Cardinal Andrea, who has
for rsosne time been in opposition to the
Rope, has submitted to the Papal author-
ity.
AT a recent fashionable dinner party in
New York, the guests were sprinkled with
rosewater.
VIcroR HUGO has been reconciled to his
wife, from whom he had for some time
been estranged.
sCHAs. LoBDELL, associate editor of the
La Crosse Democrat, who was burned to
death by the Angola disaster, was on his
way to Connecticut to get married.
AN explosion recently took place in one
the coal pits OF Saarebruck, France. Eigh-
teen dead bodies are said to have been got
out Of the mine. a&@ AaNSs@4
VIM. A. WALLACE, now chairman of the
Democratic State Committee, is proposed
as the next Democratic candidate tor Sena-
TOR from Pennsylvania.
Two hundred employees of the Washing
ton Navy Yard have been notified that
their services will not be required after the
3lst of December.
STATE NEWS.
Our of 22,45 children in the public
schools of Cincinnati; 10,122 are studying
A MINISTER at Crestline lately telegraph
ed to the chief of the Cleveland police that
some thief had stolen all his manuscript
sermons.
THE first revenue district Of Ohio yielded
$32l.066 in November. Whisky paid $780,
703, and tobacco s19,673. This district in
cludes Cincinnati. .s-.-,
The firm of J. S. Anderson & Co, grain
merchants Of Portsmouth, Ohio. failed last
week. The Tribune reports their liabilities
at about $35, 900, and assets, small.
LAST year Cleveland, Ohio, imported
from Canada 1l,450, 600 laths, LASS 600 shin
giles, $4,000 bushels wheat, 80 600 bushels
barley, 5000 cords wood, 10000 pounds
butter. if@ S4t
The receipts for beer stamps at the In
ternal Revenue Office, tor this district, for
the month of November, amounted to
$J4665. This was paid by sixteen firms.
The anountis under the average, which
is about $1,000 per month. - Zanesri1e
Courier.
The Guernsey Times says: We learn from
those who have means of knowing, that at
this early date it is known that thirty
houses, both business and dwelling, will be
constructed in this place next summer. and
judging from the number who contemplate
building, the total number will be about
sixty. jA
IA CINCINNATI newspaper says when the
first pioneers landed where Cincinnati now
stands, in December, 1888, they made a
small hut from the boards and timbers of
their boats. After a few years the hut was
torn down, and the same stuff used to erect
house not far from the corner of Ludlow
aud Front streets. This, in turn, few
years since, was demolished, and the lum-
Der used in house still standing on Cutter
street, north of Court.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Guernsey Times
says: There was meeting of the citizens
OF Cumberland, .Claysville and Concord
held in Cumberland on the 10th instant, for
the purpose of considering the propriety
Of the construction of a turnpike from
Cumberland to Concord through Claysville.
The meeting was well represented by the
the citizens of the above named places. and
it was resolved by the meeting to construct
a turnpike from Cumberland to Concord.
There was a committee OF six appointed,
, two from each place, to view the different
routes, and to report the one most practi-
cable at their next meeting, to be held at
Claysville on the first Saturday of January,
1865. -
TIE Lancaster Gazette says, that man
named Robert G. Manners was killed in a
saloon in that place on Christmas day. He
went into drinking place kept by VIM.
Redd, at the foot of Broadway, and while
he was there engaged in conversation,
Nathan Barnes, in company with another
person, came in, went up to the counter
near wnere Manners was standing and
called for drinks; while Manners was still
talking, Barnes interposed with an abrupt
and insulting remark, upon which Man
ners turned to him and said, II was not
talking to you, SIR" when Barnes, on
the instant, dealt him tremendous blow
with his fist on the side of the face, telling