Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-01-28
STATS NEWS.


! THE wheat crop in sandusEy county
promises excellent.
THERE q isayonpg negro IN tbeCuyahog'
jail charged With stealing a watch. Strange
MISS EsnLY NIELvILE isSplaying al
Cleveland. ~ ~
ASHLAND rejOices in a new steam fire
engine. 1t arrived last Wednesday.
OK the 9th of February, the Odd Fellows
of Fremont propose to have their annual
receptionia9l ,8c YThUHb
A FIRE in Mesapotamia, Trumbull coun-
ty, last week. destroyed property valued
at $45OO. No insurance.
4 TWENTY SEVEN employees of the Mus
kingum Valley Machine Works, were dis
charged last Friday evening,says the Zanes-
Cille Courier.
! I GEN:J.s WARREN KFrER, Of Springfield,
formerly Colonel of 10th Regiment Ohio
Volunteer Infantry has been offered the
position of Lieutenant Colonel in the regu-
lar army. ~ 2H.'a ui t1h1lh4oa eos 'ia..
THE, Steubenville Gazette says silver we'd
ding came off at the residence of DR..
Thofhas Johnson, OF that place, on the 18th,
and a golden wedding at the house Of John
Oliver, Esq, on the 10th. s.uas - nj b.
| A SON Of Baldwin, of East Cleveland, in
one Of his insane fits, the other day, attack
ed his mother with knife, and iuflieted
such wounds upon her person as to render
her recovery doubtful. q" 's'i'D Ei. '.,l ~ ~
| A YOUNG man named Miller has been ar
rested for committing an outrage upon a
Miss Brown, at "Dumb Hundred place
near the Montgomery and Preble county
lines. 1I -uos .aftea1 .snaiasu.9 ieil0f
A TRAIN on the Dayton & Michigan road
was thrown from the track, near Troy, by
the breaking of rail, on Friday. Several
of the passengers observation-disclosures seri-
ously. .1.5 -..., r..i ra.t Eli -.,.ra r.
TIE marshal of Mansfield gives notice
that he will prosecute all persons, old or
young, found "sliding on hand ,sleds,
boards or skates,s' on any of the streets or
alleys Of that place. 'rs. ri. 22+ rom y
A HORSE was driven from Wooster to
Jeromeville in an extraordinary short
time, a few evenings since, and died in five
minutes, after being stabbed. Pity the
beasts who drove it had not shared its fate.
| ZANEsvILLE has sixteen churches: one
Episcopal, three Presbyterian, three Bap-.
tist, five Methodist Zone Protestant andone
colored), one lutheran, two Catholic and
one United Brethren. s.i.l"i ii'.i' a..' 4
Mrs. JANE MCKINNEY, mother of Hon. j,
F. Mckinney and 5. s. Mckinney, died at
her residence, two miles north of Piqua, on
Tuesday last. She was in her 10Th year,
and had resided on the farm where she
died since 1sOS. l' 'itlfn 1.l
THE RauenRa Democrat says; She, whom
all Windham familiarly, yet respectfully
called Grandmother Sanford, died on the
9th inst- at the house of her son, in Wind
ham, John StreatorsEsq., at the advanced
age of 1903 years and months. '.}' .'a'I
THE Board Of Education of MeConnels-
vile have decided that the necessity exists
for another school building and the question
whether a tax shall be levied for It's erection,
will be submitted on the I'd day of Febru-
ary to the electors of the school district
Two scoundrels named Pete Brady and
Jep Daley, on the night of the 10th, broke
into and robbed the store of Bill & Olds, of
Sandusky, Of goods to the value of $500
They were arrested on Wednesday last and
the goods recovered. 5 g.rld .g1
THE Sdndasky Register, showing the value
of the fur trade in that region, says, that
during the winter of 1866 one house in
Sandusky purchased 1O3,SS2 native furs
valued at $25,9O944, and 1850 furs thus
tar this winter. .ri4....s
WHILE Enoch Taylor and his son were
cutting wood, in Troy township, Athens
county, last week, they got into dispute
with a neighbor named Choots and his son
William. In the course of the quarrel the
elder Taylor seized an ak and cut the young
Choots SO that he died in about eight hours.
The body Of a man named Silas Alder
man, aged about .55 years, was found In aa
old, deserted log house about half a mile
north of Woodford's Corners, Trumbull
county, last Wednesday. 1t is thought he
crawled into the old house some four weeks
since, while Intoxicated, and died from ex-
posure. q --,s-.r..r,., .5 .,,lJ sssrrr
OLD JACOB SHOOK, says the Stark County
Republican, who lived alone in small ten
ement back of the carriage shop, was found
lying dead on the ground in his back yard,
frozento death, on Friday last. It appears
that he went out for some purpose, and re-
naming out till chilled through, partially
paralyzedl by the cold, he fell down. The
traces in the snow show that he was able
to get up aud walk a few steps, when he
fell again.o After few struggles the vital
fire went out, and his limbs stiffened in
death. 1a .lL,'a. .1 .l @,
THE Cincinnati Commercial is solicitous Of
cultiYating the favor Of the Radicals. Be-
lieving that the. Republicans in the Legis-
lature have not the pluck to submit an
amendment striking the word "white" out
of the State constitution, it affects indigna-
tlon that anybody should be unwilling to