Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-12
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York Saturday at
'14O1s.
THE Salt Lake Vidette of July 18th, says:
s"From all quarters of Utah we hear that
the crops promise splendid results. There
will be a fine yield of fruit also.
Corn has fallen in Texas from two dol
lars to seventy five cents per bushel. One
paper even reports that new corn can be
engaged at Twenty-Five cents per bushel.
A BOY in Montpelier, Vermont, while
bathing in the Winooski, the other day,
found sword that evidently had been
used in the Revolutionary war.
THE Jonesboro (Illinois) Gazette gives
the amount of strawberries shipped from
that station the present season at 92.529
pounds, making 63,076 quarts, and selling
at $12,601. -e-!ri
The Leduen,oorth Times says that there is
no sickness among the men employed on
the Union Pacific road, the Kansas line.
They are probably better cared for than the
emigrants and settlers.
Z THE Green Bay (Wis.) Advocate says that
there are annually sawed and shipped on
the Bay shore two hundred million feet of
lumber, and urges the use of the refuse
lumber for new method of kiln-drying
the lumber.
DR.. FARMLAND says that London gas
was better sixteen years ago than at pres
zent; the new system of publication used
by the companies leaving the gas weak
and deleterious, and he warns them to
amend their practice.
In considerable districts of Indiana the
wheat crop will average seventeen bushels
per acre. Throughout the State there will
be a larger yield of peaches than for many
years.
TENNYsoN, annoyed beyond endurance
by vulgar visitors prying about his pretty
place at Farringford, Isle of Wight, has
sold out, and has bought residence near
Haslemere. There is no railway station
near it.
MARIA ANDERSON, eight or nine years of
age, and daughter of Mrs. John R. Ander-
son, who resides at Loveland, was drown
ed in the Little Miami river, at that place,
a few days ago, while bathing in company
with some of her companions:
STATE NEWS.
WIN. RICHARDSON, a native OF Franklin
county, Virginia, and now resident of
Paulding county, Ohio, says the Piqua
Democrat, is 104 years of age. He cleared,
last year, five acres of heavy timber land
and cultivated it in corn, the best in that
section. He is the survivor of five wives,
and is now living with the sixth. He is
the father of 25 children by two of his
wives-21 are living. His mother was
raised by Isaac Wayne, the father of An
thony, and she was married at his house.
Four of the children are ministers and
two physicians. Mr.. Richardson has al
ways voted the Democratic ticket. ~
DURING the fore part of this week, we
visited the farm ofMr. A. j. Coryell, who
resides about two miles west of this place,
says the West Union Defender, on the
Georgetown road, to look at a calf up
on which Dame Nature had been playing
some OF her p.anks, giving it two heads,
two mouths, four eyes, three under jaws
and three tongues. With the exception of
this deformity, the calf is perfect and as
large as calves usually are at its age, Civ
ing evidence of vitality that will pro-
long its life to~a "good old age" unless it
meets with some other misfortune At the
time of birth the two eyes intended for the
inside eyes, but which are situated nearly
in the center of the head, were bright and
apparently sound. but owing to their ex-
posed condition, the flies have preyed up
on them to such an extent that it is feared
that they are entirely destroyed.
IT becomes our painful duty to record
the occurrence of terrible accident
which resulted in the almost instant death
of Mr.. Eugene Stewart, of this town, saws
the Georgetown Netos. Mr.. Stewart had
been driving four horse team, hauling
rock from the creek for the new pike now
building. On yesterday evening about 5
o'clock, as he was ascending the hill, and
about halfway up, from some cause un-
known the team became unmanagable and
ran off. The team consisted of two horses
and two mules. The near wheel-horse,
which Mr.. Stewart rode while driving, it
seems, was very fractions, wild animal.
As no one was with him at the time save
small boy, and he, it appears, was walking
far behind, it is not known how the acct
dent actually occurred. But it is too pain
fully evident that by some mishap Mr..
was thrown from the horse, and
that the wheels of the heavy-loaded wagon
passed over his body and legs, literally
breaking and crushing them. His back
was terribly crushed, as also, were his legs
below the knee. He could not have lived |
over few moments after the accident. ;