Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-29
News of the Day
GENERAL NEWS.

asGoLD closed in New York yesterday at
142.
WHY might carpenters really believe In
no such thing as stone? Because they
never saw it. a1~>
Why is fascinating woman like sue
eessful gamblers? Because she has winning
ways. ,
WHY can you keep fruit better by can
ming it than any other way? Because you
can.
THERE are said to be 5000 cats in Louis
Vile, which makes that city the home OF
the news. 81
The man who was hemmed in by crowd
has been troubled with stitch in his side
ever since.
SANTA ANNA thinks he can buy himself
off. Not if the Mexicans estimate him at
his own valuation.
TIE, Chicago "Tigern and a st. Louis
lawyer fought for $4,000 side the other
night. The lawyer whipped.
GEN. Tom. THUMB has retired to his coun-
try seat in Bridgeport, to recruit for the fall
campaign at Barnum's.
"A CoNvENTIoN OF the colored Baptist
ministers OF Kentucky is in session at Lex
ington. General Brisbin addressed them
on Friday last by invitation, and a propo-
sition to hold State Convention in Octo-
Der was heartily endorsed.
OK Friday caulker named Richard Cas-
tree, while working at the foot of Forty
ninth street, North river, in New York,
1, fol Ixyy rad
over his head and breast, scalding him very
badly.
IT is stated that business in Paris is
worse than it has been known to be for
years. The Exhibition has paralyzed re-
tail trade, and wholesale speculation seems
to be affected, aseit is in London and else
where, by the excess of money and lack of
confidence.
THE Louisiana Legislature has granted
an act of Incorporation to the "Lightering
and Wrecking Company" of New Orleans,
who propose to carry ships across the bar
of the Mississippi when the water is low,
by means of marine camels composed of
India rubber. These are placed under the
hilges of ship and inflated, and such is
their 5uoyancy that vessel drawing twen-
ty feet can be raised to eight feet.
A WESTERN company have established
stations for new mail route from Montana
to st. Paul. This route is the extreme
northern, selected with view to avoid
hostile dams, and is pronounced very
favorable one. The contractor who laid it
out met some ofthe Sioux and Assiniboines,
who readily gave permission for the right
of way. He came from the Minnesota
border to Helena in fourteen days, and ex-
poets that the coaches will make the dis
t,nce in twelve days. Two military posts
are to be established on this route.
Mr.. KINeLAKE, the historian OF the Cri-'
mean war, of which the conclusion of his
account is at last announced to be forth
coming, is fifty-six years old. He has been
In Parliament for ten years, and has there
made a speciality of Continental politics.
Once or twice he has made slight sensa-
tion by assailing Louis Napoleon in his
place in the same wild way in which he
assails him in his book. The singularity
of his career is the fact that when he was
Just out of college, thirty years and more
ago, he made an Eastern tour and wrote
book about it, (Eothen), which, having
been published after the exact septennial
seasoning enjeined by Horace, was received
with high favor by all sorts of readers, and
that, nevertheless, he has not put pen to
paper for the public until he commenced
his ..Invasion of the Crimea," in 1854, and
did not even take the trouble to go into
Parliament until he was nearly fifty.