Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-26
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
1885.
Mr.. w. Clarke, an old and we'll known
actor, was found dead in bed, at his resi-
dence in New York city, on Sunday morn
ing last.
GEN. E. B. CHASE, a prominent Demo-
crat of Northern Vermont, died on the
10th, at the age of &c. He had often been
member of the Legislature.
Mrs. MUMFoRD, the widow of the man
who was hung by Beast Butler in New Or.
leans, is now living in Arlington, Virginia,
in great destitution. The ViginiaR calls
for aid for her and three fatherless children.
A NORTH CAROLINA registrar estimates
that at least one-third of the blacks will
forfeit their newly acquired privilege, by
reason of inability to remember at the polls
the names under which they registered.
On Saturday night a policeman in AL
bany, Indiana, shot two young men named
Fitz Simmons and A. McAilister, instantly
killing the former. Both the young men
were Intoxicated, and had assaulted the
policeman.
THE mig ht watchman employed in Nor
toms distillery, in Kingston, Canada, was
brutally murdered on Sunday by four un-
known men, who subsequently took flight
aboard sail boat and carried away with
them $l,SO0, mostly in specie.
A FEW nights since as the passengers on
the down train of the Jeffersonyille (Iad.)
railroad were taking supper at Seymour,
kol1 Az L.
and ran it ten miles down the road, where
it was aband oned. The train was delayed
until one O'Clock in the morning.
A BOLD attempt at burglary was foiled at
the office of Richard P. Buck & Co., No. 20
South street, New York, on Saturday
night. The burglars succeeded in remov-
ing only one of the plates of the safe,
which was made by Marvin 6 Co., and
failed to get $94, 800 which was inside.
They went off in a hurry, leaving their
tools behind them.
For several days past, says a recent
French paper, strollers in the street have
noticed small parties of young men walk
ing together, all wearing a jaunty white
cap of the same pattern. They are sing
are going to give concerts to pay their e1-
penses in Paris. There are ninety-six of
them.
The number of people thrown out of en-
ployment in New Orleans by the yellow
fever, this season, is greater than has been
hitherto known since the commercial en-
barrassments OF 1857. What the number is
may be judged from the fact that there are
said to be 5000 applications for places upon
the police and for similar appointments.
AN exchange says there are no letters
SHIELD for postage" at the Providence (R.
~ Office. A wealthy gentleman visits the
Office every week and furnishes stamps for
all letters that require it. What motive
prompts him to this action is not known,
but it is said some years ago he suffered
loss to a large amount through the failure
of a letter to reach its destination.
A MAN by the name of Look, keeping a
hotel in Edgerton, Massachusetts,, was re-
Gently arrested for selling cigar on SUM-
dayl The deputy constable, or state spy,
who swore he made the purchase, travelled
two hundred and sixty miles in order to
swear to the fact, which, however, the
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defendant.
The people living on one of the subur-
ban streets of Lille, France, were startled
some weeks ago by loud report and a
subsequent jingling of broken glass. A gas
pipe was found to have exploded in conse-
quence, the director said, of the high pres
sure caused by the illuminatio1s in honor
of the Emperor.
THE State fairs of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana,
and Minnesota occur at the same time this
year, opening September 30th and closing
October 5th. The Illinois fair will be held
at Quincy, that of Iowa at Clinton. that of
Indiana at Terre Haute, and of Minnesota
at Rochester The Wisconsin State Fair
opened at Madison on September 23d, and
will close September 9th.
CHASE has made bid for the Radical
nomination for the Presidency, by declar-
ing that Congress has the sole power over
the matter of reconstruction. When he
was holding court in North Carolina, ne
judicially held that that State had some
rights under the Constitution, but since he
came North, he has adopted Thad. Stevens
theory that 1t must be governed outside"
of that instrument. 20 most righteous
judge!"