Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-07
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEW

GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed I'm New York yesterday at
40.
THE French Prince Imperial's health is
excellent. His Imperial Highness takes
excursions in the mountains nearly every
day, and has grown considerably since his
late illness. o.;
BEFORE the Sultan left Paris, Fuad
Pasha, in his Maiesty's name, handed to
the Prefect of the Seine sum of 10000
. francs for the poor of Paris. He also Left
10000 for the servants at the Elysee.
A NEW victim of the Emigration to-Bra-
zil scheme has appeared with loud COM
plants of his treatment. As a general
thing the Sou therners who sought conso-
lation in Brazil came home sadder and
wiser men.
"OUR congregations are remarkably thin
just now," said Mr.. Null to Miss Nip, at
the church yesterday. "Ah, yes, people
have dreadful poor appetites in summer
responded that wonderful specimen of fe-
male wisdom and perceptivity."
"A SOLDIERS MONUMENT at Weathersfield,
Connecticut, contains, besides the names of
the dead, those of "one hundred volun-
teers who returned in health" The next
thing, says the Boston Post, will be mon
ument to those who stayed at home.
IT is said that the King of Greece will not
accept the Russian religion on his marriage
with the Grand Duchess Olga, because his
father, the King of Denmark, does not de-
sire it. His children will, however, be
brought up in the orthodox Greek faith.
An enthusiastic correspondent, writing
to a New York paper from Long Branch, SO
mixed his comments upon General Grants
movements with praise of Gilmore's band,
that it is impossible to tell which he thinks
is the greatest attraction of the two.
The fastest time in American railroading
was that of directors train on the New
York Central railroad, the other day, from
Hamburg to Buffalo-ten miles in eight
minutes, or at the rate of seventy-eight
miles an hour.
LAST year number of literary rifle vol
unteers in England, dubbed together and
produced q miscellany under the title of
the Earwig. This year the members OF the
First Middlesex artillery volunteers have
produced creditable volume of amusing
literature, under the title ofthe Handspike.
The Connec ticut Senate has referred the
Liquor License bill to the next Legislature,
and reconsideration having passed on the
matter, it cannot be brought up again next
year. A bill excepting lager beer, cider
and domestic wines from the operation of
the Maine law was passed by the Senate.
"A RECENT Cracow letter in the General
Correspondence" states that the govern
ment has requested the municipal author
tiles to adopt the same sanitary precautions
as last year, in conse quence of cases OF
cholera which have appeared at Warsaw,
Gleiwitz, and Wadowice.
STATE NEWS.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says an old
man, eighty-fo years old, in that place,
applied to an attorney the other day to get
him a divorce from his wife, aged seventy.
The brewery establishment of Mr.. Nor
lock, at Lancaster, together with the ad-
jDining residence. was destroyed by fire
on the 24th. Loss about 5,OO0-insurance
$1,000.
The post-office at Kinnsville, Ashtabula
county, was entered by thieves on the night
of July 22d, who carried Oft about $160
worth of postage stamps. No clue to the
thieves has been obtained.
The probable President elect of Liberia
Is an Ohioan. The election was held on the
9Th of May, and it is believed that the Hon
Edward j. Roye had beaten his two oppo-
nents. Mr.. Roye was born at Newark. O.,
February Sd. 1916, and was educated at the
Ohio University at Athens. In 1916 he en-
igrated to Liberia.
AT Fremont, Ohio, on Wednesday, the
18th, the right hand of Mr.. Robert Patter-
son, who feeds a saw in the factory of Col
Nat. Haynes, was caught by the saw, and
before he could extricate it was mangled
in horrid manner. The thumb and the
ends of all his fingers were torn off.
The Wooster Republican says that some ot
the most intelligent and successful farmers
of that county have formed an association
for the improvement of their stock of cat.
tie, and have imported from Holland a pail
of the celebrated "Holstein" breed, with
which stock, the Republican says, no othel
can compare for quantity and quality o.
milk. a
On last Friday the little daughter of D
A. Smith, of this place, aged about eleven
years, says the Pomeroy Banner, was in
stantly killed by the kick of horse. The
little girl was at the residence of a friend,
who lives short distance in the country,
and at the time the accident occurred, was
playipg in lot near some horses. The
little girl, being unaware of the vicious
disposition of one of the animals. ap-