Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-15
News. of the Day
GENERAL NEWS

GOLD closed in New York yesterday al
14o24.
BosToNIANs evidently set the proper
value on cleanliness. 1t seems that in june
and July last 469, ,4S1 persons availed them
selves of the privileges of the public baths
The increase of bathers in July over those
IN the same month last year was 10260s.
THERE is considerable trouble in ST.
Louis on account of the six cent rate of car
fare. The conductors put off single passen-
gers who refuse TO submit to the impose
tion, but when two or three of the latter
combine to resist, they ride at the old rate
five cents. AesaT ~ isz
Ar Lovettsville, Virginia, few days
since, colored man aged one hundred and
eight years was registered. Twelve others
beyond seventy years of age were register
ed there; and at Hillsboro', Isaac Camp,
aged ninety years, came forward and reg
istered. st2ir sos
THE largest income for 1866 reported in
the First district of Louisiana (part OF New
Orleans) is Thomas P. May, $63,37l. Other
incomes are: Jacob Barker, $15,354; P.
G. t. Beauregard, s5742; Henry Hart,
$5T064; j. Ad. Rozier, $12,557; VIM. N.
Mercer, $43, ,146.
THE Treasury Department at Washing
ton, accordin g to report, employs over 20
Ooo officials in its various revenue depart
ments. This number is nearly double the
strength of the grand aggregate ofthe army
of the United States at the commencement
Of the war.
The following anecdote is from New Or
leans: "A passenger got into one of the
street cars and began to smoke. The
driver objected, saying this was among the
forbidden things, and limiting that if he
permitted it he would be discharged. IF
so,' said the smoker, III engage you inn
mediately.'"
A SOUTHERN paper says that when Gen.
eral Bragg was defendinga a United States
fort against terrible attack in the Mexi-
can war, negro servant made his escape
from the danger, fled to the Mexican lines
and Joined the Mexican service. Now
General Bragg is disfranchised and the
negro servant is one of the Board of Reg
istration for the county of Mobile.
A LITTLE model of an aerial machine
has been exhibited in France, which, by
purely mechanical force, it is said, carries
a mouse through the air. A sanguine and
patriotic critic declares that France has
thus solved the difficulty of aerial naviga-
tion, and that a machine proportionately
large will raise an elephant much more
easily than the model bears its tiny trav-
eller. al4-sG afE a.s sl.-
e. THE Ne,c6urlport (Mass.) Herald has re-
eeivcd letter from DR.. M. G. Smith, who
accompanied the Jaffa colonists to Pales-
tine, dated at Liverpool, June 2Sth. Seven
teen out OF one hundred and fifty-six of
the colonists have died, thirty-two embark
ed on board the steamer City of London,
which arrived at New York on Friday last,
mostly from Maine and New Hampshire;
the remainder are about to follow.
In an account of the distribution of the
French tprizes, Gerome is described as a
ssyoung, black-haired and black-eyed man,
looking pale and thin as a ghost. He had
apparently come from dying bed to re-
hand is, as, might have been expected,
small and active like an Italian, and moved
with military precision.
A POOR woman, it seems, may have as
keen a sense of honor as the most cbival-
rous gentleman who ever stood up, pistol
in hand, at twelve PAGES. Mary Anne
Heath, a woman of forty-five, the mother
of six children, was employed at collar
manufactory in London, where she earned
Is shillings week. She was discharged
from her employment on account of some
deficiency as a workwoman andon reach
ing home, In state of great excitement,
she found that she had taken by mistake
bundle of her masters work instead of her
own children's clothing. At once it
flashed across her mind that the oc-
currence would be imputed to dishonesty,
aud she became very miserable. Her hus-
band told her to take the things back at
once; greatly agitated she started to do so,
but could only nerve herself to leave the
bundle at public house directed to her
master. That same night, at 0 o'clock, she
jumped over the parapet of London bridge
and, though she was promptly rescued by
boat, she could only say, "Oh, don't expose
mel I am Mrs. Heath, of No. 1 Boundry
row. Blackfriars." Immediately afterward
she died-a homely victim to the point of
honor, If ever there was one In this world.