Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-12
COLUMBUS. O., THURSDAY MORNING,
Varieties.

Feorla, Ill, Is spending S000O00 in i'm
! provements.
The Black Crook has reached its 344th
night in New York.
The old Stuyvesant pear tree in New
York is sending up new shoots.
|. There are no fewer than 341 manufacto-
| ries of false teeth in Paris.
The English coal mines increased their
production last year some three and one
half millions of tons.
L w. B. Bourne, once acarrier of the Prop
idence (R. ~ Journal, returns an income of
Sl25 600 in San Francisco.
A company of about thirty strolling gyp-
sizes, are encamped in the woods near North
ampton, Mass.
The majority of the mills in Lowell are
now making active preparations to start up
all their machinery.
Mrs. Kate Totten has sued the Pacific
railroad in st. Louis for running a train over
her husband and killing him few days
since. She valued him at $4,000.
A rich coal vein has been discovered on
the estate of Sir Robert Clifton, near Not
tingham, Eng. The English papers regard
the discovery as one of great importance.
Isaac F. Bragg, of Pine Meadow, walked
on Tuesday last to Hartford, Conn.,, dis
tance of nineteen miles. He is in his
eighty-second year. ,3s.--
Plymouth Rock is becoming very unclean
and tnseemly, from the habit of pilgrims
splitting tobacco juice and throwing to
bacco cuds and the remnants of luncheon
upon it.
The State of Iowa has now 1145 miles OF
railroad complete and in running order,
which have cost in construction the sum of
S45,4S0,0 600. :,
The people of Sullivan, Indiana, have
found that their incorporation as "city''
is too costly luxury, and have petitioned
to have it dissolved.
A London paper says that coroner's
jury has condemned the atmosphere of the
underground railway in that city, declar-
ing that it accelerated the death of pas
senger.
Among the victims of the yellow fever at
Corpus Christi, Texas, was the acting May
or. two clergymen, three doctors, two
druggists, and five undertakers.
Economy at Long Branch, according to
a lady visitor, consists in bringing only
thirty dresses, two lace shawls, four para
soils, five round hats and three boxes of
gloves.
The United States Patent Office recently
refused to grant patent to q spiritualist
of New York who applied for patent for
IAN arrangement to make ghosts visible."
ing a company to encourage emigration of
their countrymen to Alaska, to engage in
the fishing business.
A Prussian military band, which had
gone to Darmstadt to play at concert, has
been badly used. The pOpulace followed
the men on their leaving the building and
pelted them with stones till they reached
the station.
The editor of an Iowa parer says that
the heavens were black one day last week,
with wild geese, flving South, and conse-
quently presages that winter will be here
iu September.
A pair of Danthers which escaped from a
menagerie in Ohio are supposed to have
taken up their abode near Indianapolis.an
the IndianapOlitans intend to hunt them
out.
An old lady, over ninety years of age,
wandered in her sleep. on Wednesday
night, through Il number of streets in
Lafayette, Indiana, and finally fell into the
basement of the Sisters of Providence
Building.
There Is gentleman going through
bankruptcy in Milwaukee whose liabili-
ties are 100000 most of which are in judg-
ments. while his assets are reported as $500
in personal clothing.
The Pittsburgh Gazette says the travel on
the railroads leading to that city is very
small, and the prospect for January divi-
dends is consequently not very good. The
hotels unite in the lament.
The city of Davenport, Iowa,-is in finan-
cial distress, and cOnfeSses itself bankrupt.
The. principal of the city debt is $251, 800,
and the total liability is now fully half a
million dollars.
A farmer from Dixon, ILL.,, writes to the
Agricultural Department in Washington
that he has successfully made sugar from
the box elder trees. The sap, he asserts, is
very sweet, granulates as readily as the
maple, and makes white sugar of finer
taste.
Although it is more than five years since
the death of Prince Albert, the mourning
seal in black wax continues to be affixed to
all the official letters of the English Gov
ernment in its several departments, nor
does there appear any probability OF re-
turn to the red official seal.
During the recent examination of candi-
dates for ordination AZ the English Wesley
an Conference, pledge was required from
those given to the use of tobacco that they
would abstain in future. One of them de-
cliBed to give such pledge, and his ordi-
nation was postponed tor year.
Coal is reported to exist in great plenty
in both Spain and Brazil, but those coun-
tries import it at heavy cost from England,
for want of enterprise to work their own
mines. In South America it is believed
that coal-tield fringes the coast of Brazil
from the river Platte to Cape st. Rogue.
The Hudson River and New York Cen
trail Railroad Companies are'reducing their
expenses by discharging large number of
employees. Several conductors on the Cen
trail have been dis harged or put in subor-
dinate positions; while in addition to the
removal of every surplus man on the Hud-
son river, the signal men are also being re-
moved.
A Neapolitan prince, they say; is to mar
ry the buXom daughter of Sorrento hotel
keeper. They also say he fell in love With
the table fare rather than the maiden fair.
The Pennsylvania Radicals say ''the SOL
dier game is played out,' and they now set
'sthe boys in blue" aside in selecting nom
inees for office and take up party hacks.
Mrs. Stanton is off for Kansas to "hunt
the white male citizen out of that region,''
as she says. After all her hunting in this
section, the only white mans hide she has
to show is that of poor Greeley.
The Nev York Ledger has picture of the
school house where Horace Greeley won't to
school. Are not the .Recouections run
ming thin? Horace says he studied oratory
while he had the measles. 1t is enough to
give one the measles to hear him practice
it now.
ONE of the most sickening outrages that
we have ever been called upon to record,
says the Cleueldnd Plain Dealer, was perpe-
trated at Tiffin. Seneca county, on Sunday
night last, at nine o'clock. The facts of
the affair, as far as we have been able to
learn them, are these: The young wife of
Mr. Seinsoth a resDected German citizen