Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-05
News of the Day.
GENERAL-NEwS.

News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York Yesterday at
137.
= TAERs 'is neither jafli nor church in
Hampstead, Texas,
A MINISTER, named Koegel is to Berlin
what Spurgeon is to London.
PRiNcE and Princess Heck have returned
Ito Enxland from the Con ntinent. " T.
Two marines were drowned while cross
ing the river at Kittery, Maine, last week.
EpwsIg Mass nyo hsyea fewnights of
opera this winter.
Two hundred and nineteen newspapers
are published in Indiana.
III Is said that many families are leaving
louisiana to settle in Maryla
JUD aE WILLIAMS of Pennsylvania, is
announced as the author of the majority
report recommending impeachment.
VIZ. DosAvAN win be hanged at York,
Fenn, b-morrow, for the murder OF the
Squibb family. j sfg.s ~
I It Is stated that Mr. Dickens walks two
miles into the suburbs OF Boston every
morning, as constitutional"
GEO. T. RICE, President Of the Worcester
& Nashua railroad, died at Worcester, Mass,
on Thursday.
..lOvER one milliona af dollars wete sppro-
priated tor Improvements by the Boston
Board of Alderman las t week.
IT is stated that the PortlSud (Maine)
Mercantile library Assocfotioh has offered
Mr.. Dickens 81, 800 to give one reading in
thrt city.
In Ann Arbor. Mich, few days since, a
young man walked two miles in twenty
minutes, tor purse Of $50. !" -, 3. ga
NEAL Dow Ia expected to arrive at Bos-
ton on Wednesday next, and will have a
public reception at that city or Portland.
AccoRDING to the recent report of the
Public Library of Boston, five thousand
books have disappeared from the shelves
since the institution was opened.
,2Oyts one HUNDRED and any dwellings
and stores have been erected at Lewistown,
.Maine,, during the last year, yst the papers
complain of high. ,rents and scarcity OF
houses. ysss1is suO o. saoi5isbs sbzu
The dam across the Illinois river at Mar
seilles, Illinois, Is Sta ted tosbe hine hundred
aud thirty feet long, and contains 2lS,-
600 feetof timber and -llL tons of spikes
sl1l lkolts.x i X " ! j u ! Il 4
Two persons have been arrested in Knox
ixille,s e,sTennessee.l tor rhayingpassed counter
felt fiftys and one hundred dollar treasury
notes in Atlantis, Georgia. q
A MILITARY order, emanating from mill
taEy hea1qaartess detailing renewals snd
appointments in that State, occupies six
columns in the Galueston (Texas) Bulletin.
In the various wards of New York city
on Friday 1887 voters were registered, which
makes total, with those registered at the
be9innisg Of the month, Of l30. 900. -A-,k
The Emperor of Austria's visit to Paris
without the Empress, was regarded by the
Empress Eugenie as slight which could,
with difficulty. be overlooked.
LARes beamsof decayed woods like ee-
aaf, with numerous sen shells, have been
found forty feet below the surface of the
ground In Connessyille, Ind, while digging
to lay railway track. 3 aToHd iis@ -
New YoRK has not yet achieved the sys-
tenn of exchange tickets on her passenger
railways. and one Of herspapers wants it
estabfished' This is one Of the many con-
veniences in which Philadelphia is. ahead.
A CORRESPONDENT of New York even
Ing paper suggests that reformation be
established ''for the correction of architec-
tural monstrosities.'H He thinks the einsti-
tntioH c0uld be made as effective as the So
ciety for the Cruelty to Animals, and re-
marks that an ili-pianried house is cruelty
to the highest of animals-man.
ALLEN and Colbeck, two grocers, recent
ly left Charlottstown, Prince Edwards Is
land, for the mainland, in q fishing boat, In
order to cheat their creditors.l They were
overtaken by a, storm, and the boat has
since drifted ashore with the dead body of
one Of ahem entangled in the rigging. The
other is supposed to be drowned.
PAUL B. DU CHALLU, the well-known
African Explorer, has Just returned from
Europe, and has had painted, in excellent
style, by the best artists of that speciality,
q series Of beautiful diagrams, nine feet
long by six feet broad, illustrating the
scenery, animals and people Of Africa
They will be used by M Du Chaillu in his
lectures throug ghout' the United States this
winter. .F0k8 n
.IflTII.g STATE NEWS. I III t87f
The dwelling house of Mr.. Levi Dicker-
son, of Windsor township, says the Morgan
County Herald, was, with all it's contents,
destroyed by fire on Wednesday, the Doth
instant, about o'clock in the afternoon
The family were absent, Mrs. d. having
gone % Windsor. Mr.. d. and bis son being
out n'theA farm, engaged IN husking corn.
It is mystery TO them how the fire origir
mated, as but little had been kept in the
house during the day. The buifding was
part log. boarded, and part frame, was
stored with more than an ordinary stock
of household goods, and the entire loss,
which falls heavily on the family, it is
thought, amonnts to nearly three thousand
ooiiars.Gt -gfses5-5q F.ns .sasi zap 5ssd IS -
TEE body of Mr.. James F. Neal was
found in the water under the bridge across
Snyder's head-race, on what is called the
Troy road, west of the city, says the Spring
field Republic, at, about eight O'Clock this
(Monday) morning. The discovery was
made by Me. William F. Stewart, who was
passing at that hour, and had stopped to
water his horses. The drowned man was
In, q sitting posture, the water just cover
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