The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-11-28
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What is the difference betweon }
truth and eggs2 Truth crushed to 7
earth will rise again, but eggs
won't.
A smart lad, hearing his mother !
remark that she was fond OF.
s music, exclaimed: "Then why don't
' you get mo a drumY"
Illinois is jubilant at having pro-
duced an excellent cotton crop this
year. There were 1000 bales rails
ed iE one county alone.
Cincinnati has granted conncc-
/ ton to the Little Miami and Ohio
and Mississippi Railroads, through
one Of her streets.
ANY. company is reported as
having purchased 10000 acres of
land in North Carolinia, for WOOL
growing purposesl
A North Carolina rebel, rotating
his experience in battle, was asked
why he did not get behind a tree.
t"Tree | I'll be dogoned If there
We're trees enough left for the Off
GERS" X 1
A "perfect savage suggested in
our presence the other day that the
physicians Of Cairo should adopt q
motto. Ho had the offrontery TO
suggest, as entirely appropriate =
patients under a monument"
McCoole and Coburn signed an
agreement, in Chicago few days
ago, to fight on the 9th Of May
next, within fifty miles of Cincin.
natl, for $1,000 a side.
1t was not Harper's "Wild Bill"
who robbed the bank in fremont,
Illinois. "Wild Bill" has not been
out of Kansas for many months
At the election, last week, he was
the Radical candidate for Sheriff of
Ellsworth, but was defeated by q
small majority. F
The Treasury Department have
decided not TO convert 7.30s into
5-20s unless presented at maturity.
Failing in this, they will bo paid
in greenbacks.
Two heavy failures in Philadel-
phia on the 18th, are reported-one
dry-goods house for 100000 and
the other machinist for $780,
600. Assets in each case, small.
The Susquebanna and Chenango
rivers, at Binghampton, N. Y, were
entirely frozen over during the
night of the 18th. This has been
the most rapid freezing known for
years.
A disabled soldier made money
to buy a wooden leg, by cutting up
his crutches into half-inch bits and
selling them as portions of the staff
from which Ellsworth hauled down
the rebel flag.
The President has pardoned
Major General q. B. Crittenden,
late Of the rebel army, q son of tho
late Senator Crittenden of Ken
lucky.
The Capitol Building OF WISH
ington, it is stated, originally cost
about 81 100000. The additions,
alterations and extensions Of this
building, which are now nearly
completed, it is estimated, will cost
s10,00O,OOO. ,.rs
allow do you do2" said friend
to Mr.. o. d. Kimball, in Quincy
Market, Boston, Friday. First
rate; never was better." replied
Mr.. Kimball, and fell dead as ho
spoke.
A lady teacher in a hourishing
school in the State Of New York,
makes daily practice of putting a
subject on the black. board and al
lowing about fifteen minutes for
pupils to compose a short lesson, all
of which are read before tho school.
The practice works benefcially,
and occasionally brings out youth
iul gems.
The Ohio Pathological Society
meets at Sandusky on Wednesday
and Thursday, the 4th and 9th of
December.
The Tuscumbia North Alabam-
ian has declared for Radicalism and
Congressional Reconstruction.
General Pope orders the Gcor-
gia Reconstruction Convention to
meet at Atlanta, December g.
A gentleman of Cleveland, in n
short hunt in Wisconsin this fall
"bagged' 375 ducks, % wild geese
and four deer.
They have a girl, Of ten years in
a private gymnasium at Roxbury,
Mass, that lifts three hundred and
seventy pounds, and one Of thir-
teen that lifts four hundred pounds;
and one of fourteen that lifts four
hundred and sixty pounds.
The Sandusky Register says:
The lowest water seen in the San
dusky Bay for twenty years, was
on Monday, the 2Sth of October.-
1t was four feet below tho usual
stage. In front Of our house, we
could walk and pick CLANS forrods,
where we never saw bottom before.
The valuation of property upon
the grand duplicate of the State of
Ohio, for thcpresent year, amounts
to eleven hundred and forty millions
of dollars.