The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-13

The corner stone of a now Court
House was laid in Jackson, o., on
the 23d uIt.
John. b. Pago has bcen nomina-
ted lor Governor by the Republi-
cans Of Vermont.
LORD Monck, the present Cover.
nor General, has been appointed
first Viccroy OF the Dominion of
Canada.
John NJ. Langston, the colored
lawyer of Oberlin, is going un an
extended tour through the South.
John Powers, champion skater
ot America, was among the lost by
tho recent burning of tho lake
steamer Wisconsin.
Two thousand one hundred and
nineteen emigrants passed through
Columbus last week, of whom sos
will settle in Ohio.
Ninety barrels of ale wore recent.
ly empLiod into the streets of
Portland, Maine, by the authori.
tics.
Parties from Montana report
that u much larger amour, of gold
will be shipped from that Territory
this year than last.
A boy in Montreal put two fro.
crackers into his nostrls and fired
them to see the effect. Ilo now
knows that ho has no nose.
The annual horse fairat Buffalo,
IS to bo held on the 18th, 18th, 18th
and 10th of August. Tho pre-
miums amount to $4,000.
lT is estimated that the registry
in South Carolina, when completed,
will show 10000 white to 10000
colorcd voters.
"OprREssIoN." "-Gcn. Sheridan
has issued an order iorbidding
0itezons Of New Orleans from carry.
ing fire arms.
A plantation il Louisiana which,
anterior TO the war, yioldud an
income of $50, 900 was sold the
other day for $4,000.
Tho distance from Now York to
Sacramento by the railroad route
is 3,l29 miles, of which 1889 have
been completed, and arc now in
successful operation, leaving but
| ,252 niles yet to bo built. 1t is
confidently asserted that this gap
will bc fllcd up within two years.
Tho Prussian, Bcsscmor, who
only a few years since advanced
his simple, cheap and short method
Of converting pig iron into mallea-
bio steel, is already enjoying an
income from it Of 100000 per
annum.
THE editor of tho Jackson
Standard says that man named
Willis, l05 years old, living thir.
.ocn miles from lronton, o., walk
I'd the whole distance (13 milcs)
recently before eight o'clock in the
morning.
TIE whcat harvest in Georgia
has commenced, and tho yield
promises to bo very large, All tho
crops are looking we'll,
TUE cCntal system is again
Ngitatcd, and n convention of its
friends is TO be held at Cleveland,
July l6. Delegates have bcen
by the Louisville Bonrd
Of Trade,
uEHE aro some Srasshoppers
in Kansas, The editor of tho
Tribune says that in ono
hour ho counted on. n sandy ridge.
.on hundred thousand million, and
loft somo uncounted.
THE farmers in Delaware Coun.
", Iowa, have just discovered that
hey have wheat for sale, and are
of it ut 81 5Oa bushcl.-
A few weeks ago they refused to
sell at So 25.
A Georgia paper. Of May 30th
states that the farmers of that soc.
lion had commenced cutting their
wheat. 1t says the harvest will be
more abundant than for ton years
past,
Gen. Longstreet has published
letter, containing the following
paragraph "The military bill and
amendments are peace offerings.
We should accept thOm as such,
and place ourselves upon them as
the starting point from which to
meet the future political issues as
they raise Sensible.
General Sheridan has issued an
order appointing Benz, F. Flanders
Governor of Louisiana, picc Thomas
]. Durant, declined,