Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-25
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.


GoLp closed in New York yesterday at
1427s.
A WHOLESALE dealer of Baltimore has
been fined for distributing business cards
in Georgetown, d. G. 1t was held that
such distribution was violation of the
law regarding ''drummers."
DURING family alteration, in Chicago,
on Tuesday of last week, young man.
named James Pride, shot at his father
three times, but fortunately missed his
mark. The young man is in jail. 5r3
NARY HARRIS, who killed Burroughs,
the Department clerk in the Treasury De-
partment, at Washington, on the Both OF
January, 1865, is under treatment for in
sanity at the Government insane Asylum
at Washington. She is said to still exhib-
it unquestionable evidences OF insanity.
THERE was prarie fire near Fort Ran
som, Dakota Territory, on the 9TH instant,
which burned about 700 tons of hay, and
came near destroying the fort. The same
fire ran into half-breed camp and burned
tea half breeds to death, and ten more are
so badly burned that their lives are des-
paired of.
TIE Chicago Adudnce publishes the wants
of ministers wishing employment, and OF
churches needing pastors or supplies. The
first notice is by a graduate of Chicago
Theological Seminary in 1862, who an
nounces ne is free to supply vacant
churches, either for single Sabbath, or
with view to settlement.
An elm tree was cut down last week in
Geauga county, Ohio, which experts pro-
nounce seven hundred and ninety two
wears old. The tree weighed sixty thou
sand pounds, and was over four feet in
diameter. and made seven thousand feet of
inch boards, clear stuff.
CoNvICTs are rarely so generous to the
people whom they rob, as the one who is
said to have been recently transported to
Australia, for burglary in robbiDg safe,
and made draft of model ofa safe which
he believes thief-proof, and sent it to one
of his victims as compensation for the in
jury which had been inflicted upon him.
A PAPER tells of visit to a cave near
Augusta, Ga. While the party were with
in, investigating the gloomy interior, there
was noticed an old colored man standing
on the outside, who was asked "Say, un-
Gle, why don't you go into the cave? "Ah,
my MASTER" said he, ''de Lord knows
see trouble enough OH the top of the earth.
j don't go in dat hole g. searching after mis-
cry"
Mr.. EDMUND QUINCY, in his life of Jo-
siah Quincy, gives the origin of the name
Point Judith, on Long Island Sound. 1t
appears that Mr.. Edmund Quincy, who died
over two hundred years ago. left daugh-
ter Judith, who married John Hull. He
owned the ''ill-reputed headland, the ter
ror of all sea sick passengers" and con.
ferred the name of his wife upon it.
A SOLDIER on his way to the plains, in
attempting to get on the train at Patterson,
Pa, one day last week, fell between the
cars, and was run over and so badly in
jured as to cause his death in twenty-four
hours. 1t appears he got off the train to
get glass of whisky, and as the train did
not stop long, he was little late in reach
ing it. One glass of whisky cost this man
his life. He had been seventeen years in
the military service of the United States,
and passed through the late rebellion with
out receiving any injury.