Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-07
News of the Day.

GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York Saturday at
144A.
THERE were several shocks of earth
quake in East Tennessee last week.
The horse which Zollicoffer rode when
he was shot at Mill Creek has been lately
sold for $500.
The tobacco crop of Southern Indiana
his fallen short of the expectations of the
planters.
MRS. MARIA STARKs, residing in Ontario
county, N. Y, cut and harvested this sea-
son ver-twenty-fve acres of wheat with
her own hands.
AT the petty sessions of Harwich, Eng
land, recently, two boys, twelve years old,
were sentenced to one months imprison-
ment for stealing six-pears!
The yellow fever has visited twenty
towns in the lower portion of the State of
Texas. Some of these places were never
known to have case of the disease before.
THERE are nearly two dozen political
journals now published in Paris, and nine
teen others have been authorized by the
government, which have not yet made their
appearance.
QUEEN VICTORIA is going to have all the
notices of her book collected and printed
for her own delectation. She has been
much pleased with the manner in which it
has been received.
THE sparrows in the public squares of
New York are Increasing rapidly. Union
Square has now over 500 of them. Fifty
additional sparrow houses were placed in
Madison Square last week.
THERE are a large number of Indian
mounds in Minnesota which the historical
society of that State is carefully exploring.
The only evidences of skill yet discovered
are specimens OF pottery ware.
A NEW explosive substance, which re-
sembles gunpowder in its effects, has been
discovered by a French savan. 1t Is pre-
pared by the action of chlorate and of nj
trate of potassa on ordinary glue or ISM
glass.
A WOMAN was found dead In London
street recently with her throat cut, and it
was established before coroner's jury
that the accident was caused by her hav-
ing fallen on the edge ofa basin she carried
in her hand.
The Partisan authorities are considering
the expediency of erecting foot bridges
over the most crowded of the thoroughfares
of that city. The experience of our New
York neighhors in bridging Broadway is
doubtless at their service.
THE hot corn business must be q profit
BILE one. for in New York and Brooklyn,
during the past season, LOO persons have
been engaged in selling it about the streets,
whilst in Philadelphia from 500 to 600
persons were engaged in the same trade.
The Coolies who have been imported
pers, prove very inferior substitutes for
the negroes. They know nothing about
American agricultural implements or
method OF cultivation, and are said to be
lazy, obstinate, mischievous and thievish.
STATE NEWS.
MR.. SAMUEL BRUMBAUGH lost an arm, by
being caught in a threshing machine, near
New Lebanon, Thursday morning, says the
Dayton Ledger. Mr.. B. was threshing out
grain, with machine, for Jacob Rife, when
his right arm was caught in the gearing
and completely torn off. 1t will be remem-
bered that Mr.. John Fulse was killed by
similar accidents a few weeks since, in the
same neighborhood.
On Monday last, C. S. Vorwerk, County
Treasurer, says the Holmes County Farmer,
had his shoulder dislocated by being
thrown from buggy, while on his way to
German township to collect taxes. In
passing down the hill near the residence of
Mr.. Robert Maxwell, the holdback strap
broke, causing the horse to run away. He
will probably be unable to do much for
some time.
The drouth still continues in this neigh
borhood, and it may be said to be severe.
There is much complaint among farmers
of the scarcity of stock water. Grass is
burnt up, and wheat, where it sprouted, is
dying. The failure of the grass fields has
cut short the supply of butter, and for
some weeks past it has been next to i'm
possible to procure that article in Lebanon,
at any price.-LebGnon Star.
A YOUNG girl, aged about thirteen, on
visit at Mr.. Carpenters, in Bloom township
in this county, says the Seneca Advertiser,
met with an accident on Friday evening
last. which resulted in her death. 1t ap-
pears that she was riding horse to water I
and in returning, it became fractions,
throwing her off and breaking her neck.
Her parents live In Wood county, we be-
iieve. 5a 81 ~