Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-05
News of the Day.

and strength as 1t moves along.
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York yesterday a
14O7s.
A LIGHT snow fell in Indianapolis nearly J
all day on the 30th ultimo.
NEW YORK papers complain of the leaky
roofs of their ferry-boats.
THE farming towns in Vermont are said
to be decreasing in population.
To take lady to the opera in New
York, if done ''respectably," is said to cost
twenty dollars.
a POLICEMAN in Nashville knocked down
the Mayor of that city few days since.
GARRorING has become very frequent in
Newark, N. j., of late.
New JERSEY contributed 5000 to the
American Bible Society during September.
OVER 4O,OGO,OOO gallons of sorghum syrup
are annually manufactured in the United
States.
A SCARCITY of water is complained Of
in Mobile, and fears arc entertained in case
of a fire.
ONE hundred and twenty-nine applica-
tions under the Bankrupt law have been
filed in the District Court of Indiana.
THE new Portland Custom House is to be
of granite, one hundred and thirty eight
feet long by sixty-eight feet wide. u
The notorious ex-rebel, Belle Boyd, lee
tured TO an audience of forty persons in
Lexington, KY, last week.
IT is announced that a woman in New
Orleans, not yet forty, has just married her
eighth husband.
A BOSTON paper says the modification of
the bounty law of Massachusetts, by the
last Legislature, saves that State LOCO, 600
annually.
A NEW paper called Freedoms Watchman
has just started at Murfreesboro', Tenn
The Weekly Patriot is the title OF new Re-
publican paper just issued at Clarksville,
Tenn.
"A WOMAN in Providence, r. l., refused to
marry her lover on the very day assigned
for the wedding, because he had shaved off
his moustache.
COUNT DE NJ MoNTALEMBERT, who has been
passing some time in Belgium for the ben
eft of his health, has returned to Paris
much better, but still in delicate state.
, THE Chicago and Alton Railway Com
pany has been mulcted in the sum OF three
thousand dollars by a Springfield, Ill, jury,
for running over a boy five years old, re-
Gently.
The venerable Ex-Governor Levi Lin
coin, of Massachusetts,, has survived five
of his successors in the Governors chair.
He is several years past the age of man as
allotted by the Psalmist.
A BROOK trout weighing two and half
pounds, and measuring I61s inches in
length and 91S in girth, was caught at Mid
dlefield, Conn, few days since.
SEVERAL pickpockets, disguised as Quak-
ers, got into the yearly meeting OF the
Hicksite Friends, at Baltimore, yesterday.
and relieved many OF the members of their
watches and pocket-books.
The first newspaper printed in New
Hampshire was the New Hampshire Gazette,
issued one hundred and eleven years ago.
The Gazette still exists, under its original
title in Portsmouth.
CARDINAL ANToNELLI is reported to have
said to the Irish Bishops at Rome, "You ]
see Fenianism is worth something. Ithas
brought the Irish question towards set
tlement."
The Wilmington and Weldon railway,
North Carolina, have placed eating cars on
their road, in which meats and other arti-
cles of food are cooked and served hot to
travellers at reasonable prices.
THE author OF the 'Euide du Ceremonial"
says that it is the proper thing for gen. ]
tleman, on marrying widow before the
expiration of her mourning, to put on
weeds for his lamented predecessor.
1T is reported that ripe strawberries were
gathered in the open air at Newton, Mass,
last week.
THE Canadian papers lament the contin-
ued emigration from the '.Dominionn to
the United States.
The Germans of Frederick, Md, are
about to purchase thirty-eight acres OF
land for shooting park.
FIFTEEN Sisters of Charity have gone to
Memphis from New Orleans, to nurse the
yellow fever patients.
Or one hundred and twelve members
drawn for jury in county in Louisiana
but twenty-flv are white men.
SEVERAL newspapers in Iowa favor Sem
ator Harlan for next President, and there
is a movement to bring him out as a can
didate.
IT costs $4,000 for Queen Victoria and
her suite to travel from Winsor Castle to
Balmoral, distance of 602 miles.
IT is stated that one of the features of a
journal with Fenian leanings, published in
London, is department with the news of
the day turned into verse.
NEARLY $1,000 francs were found in the
hovel of an old beggar woman, who died
recently near Alencon, France.
THE population of Brussels has dimin-
ished 1889 during the past year, ''in conse.
1uenee,n says an official report, ''of the
excessive mortality caused by the chol-
era"
In England, not long since, ferret kill
ed in one night, 80 fine turkeys, II chick
ems and 16 ducks, arranged the fowls in a
circle, and was caught asleep in the center
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