Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-29

GENERAL NEWS.


GoLD closed in New York yesterday eve-
ming. at 1343s.
CHICAGO has New England Debating
Club Elk. So has Congress.
vAr the municipal election at Marcus
Hook, last week, the Democrats elected
their ticket, the first time in twenty years
GEN. BUTLER's new coach will be large
enough to hold all his party friends, if he
does not behave better.
"A GLow-woRM with two lights, one the
usual phosphorescent green, and the other
a glowing red, has been discovered in the
Argentine Republic.
A PRIVATE letter from Pictou, N. s.. says
fire had broken out in the famous Albion
coal mine, and that the river had been
turned into il, with what result is not
known.
THE grand jury of the United States Dis
trict Court at Trenton, N. j., have made
presentment charging the jailors with
starving prisoners and extorting money
from witnesses.
A, BOY, fifteen years old, in Bri1lion, CAL
umet county, Wisconsin. after desperate
struggle, killed large she bear and cap
tured four cubs, and the next day killed a
catamount.
A MEETING of leading Democrats was
held in Albany on Friday evening for con-
sultation, and it was resolved, shat the
Democracy can, must, and will carry the
city at the next election"
49, Vy-<,rr oood 700 uoorc uicifo6
the United States Revenue Office in Nash-
vile, Tennessee, last week, and drew her
pension as the widow of Joseph Wick, who
was a private soldier in the first revolu-
tiOnary war in America.
IT is singular fact that Tennessee, which
Congress singled out as special pet and
favorite, has been the scene of more disor-
der and difficulty since the war ended than
have occurred in all the excluded States.
AT dinner party, given in New York
recently, by a wealthy citizen, up town, the
walters were dressed in scarlet coats, knee
breeches, silk stockings and powdered wigs
after the old English fashion.
A RELIGIOUS fancy party was the last
novelty in New York. All, present as
sumed Scriptural characters or those of
pious celebrities, and the exercises opened
with prayer. Queer times these. a..4it
A CIVIL suit, at Hastings, Minnesota,
against Thomas Eagan, who killed SOL
der in Dakotah county in 1854, has re-
suited in a verdict of 81, ,S46 damages to the
widow of the murdered man. Eagan had
previously been tried for murder and ac-
quilted.
A MEETING of tenants in the Twenty
second ward, New York, was held on Sat-
urday night to devise means to have the
present exorbitant rates reduced. Resolu-
tions were adopted refusing to pay in
creased rent, and threatening that in case
any families are elected on that account to
publish the name of the landlord and not
patronize him in future.
The citizens of Madison, Wisconsin, had
a rich time on Friday night. AChicagoan,
named Swanburg, advertised for a wife
He was answered by .asyoung fellow of
Madison, under the name of young LADY,
who stated that she was iready to receive
his proposals, and inviting him to visit her.
He met the proposed young lady and pro-
posed to elope with her. He was arrested
by bogus officer for attempting abduc-
tion, and tried by bogus court in the
court house. After standing the ordeal of
two hours trial. he was released on condi-