The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-31
NkWs OFTHE WEEK.

AT the last accounts, Garibald
was within forty-two miles of Rome
at town near the Papal frontier.
The President recommends thai
Thursday, Nov 2sth, be observed
as day OF National Thanksgiving
The monthly report Of the public
debt for the present month will
show . reduction of four millions.
Twenty.seTen millions in coin
will be paid, November lst, by the
Treasury, asinterest on $50 bonds
Passenger and freight trains are
now running 10 Hillsdale. on the
Pacific Railroad, FIVE hundred miles
west Of Omaha.
The Washington Evening Star
was'sold tho other day for S125,OOO
"a good price for a small sized
paper.
Bureau statistics at Washington
show that the cotton crop this year
will amount to 1,764, 1857 bales,
against 3,656,Os6 bales, 10 1860.
Gov. BRowNLow has been elected
BY the Tennessee Legislature U. S.
Senator for six years from the 4th
of March, 1869.
Now York election next Tuesday
We suppose the so called Dcmoc
racy will carry it-but it don't sig.
niiy-the Empire State will bo all
right next year, anyhow.
The newspaper organ of tho
Grand Army Of the Republic in
Ohio floats this flag:--"For Presi.
dent in 1868, Gen. U. s. Grant
Impartial, Manhood Suffrage, yes. y
The Athens Messenger is inform
ed that work will soon bo com
msnced on the line of tho Colum.
bus and Hooking Valley Railroad
between Lancaster and Logan.
The Virginians complain of Gen.
eral Schofeld for the way he has
managed the election, and threaten
to protest and contest.
Ovorcoats to the knees very
tight pants, like those worn thirty
years ago, and silk hats. with low
crowns and broad brims such are
mems fashions for the coming sea.
son.
The five hundredth mile of the
Union Pacific Railroad was. laid on
Saturday. Seventeen miles more
will carry the track to Cheyenne,
at tho eastern base of the Rocky
Mountains.
The Norwalk Base Ball Tour
nament closed on Friday evening
The "Union" Club Of Toledo won
two of the prizes--S3O0 and $780,.
The Railway Club Of Cleveland rot
the 5000 prize.
The sanduslsy Register says the
propriotors Of Johnson's island
raised this year FIVE hundred bush.
oils of excellent corn on little more
than six acres of ground, contained
within the old Confederate prison.
There will be thirty. niue Repub.
licans and eight Democrats in the
next Iowa Senate; and seventy.seven
kepuplicaVs, seventeen Democrats,
and seven independents, in the
House. Ninoty.fve counties give
a Ropublicaa majority of27.353.
official returns in Virginia in.
dicate the election Of thirty Con.
servatives and sixty Radicals oigh.
tecn. OF tho latter are colored mon.-
Sixty five counties give 7O,777 for
and "A, 1850 against the Convention
A number of counties are yOt to be
heard from.
Intelligence received by tho Ro
publican Congressional Commit.
tee in Washington, from the South.
ern States which have not yet held
elections, indicates that in all of
them the party in favor of holding
convention will be successful,
The election in West Virginia for
State Senator's and Representatives
took place on Thursday last, Tbo
returns are meager, and indicate a
diminished vote, Tho democrats
gain, as far herd from, but no,
enough to give Them the Lcgisla.
turO. The Wheeling ntolligoncer
promises a better result next year.
when State and Presidential tick.
cts will bO in the 6old.
Owing to a misplaced switch at
.4enia on Saturday evening, the
Pittsburg train bound for Cincin.
natl, was run on to side track,
and into tho rear Of n wood train,
upon ono of the cars Of which tho
paegenRer en0ina nilod uaoIe