Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-21
News of the Day.

News of the Day.
r.rc.i z.+ GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York Saturday at
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A STATUE to the painter Teniers has been
erected in Antwerp. 100 - & - = L
BLAIsEZ PAscAL's mighty intellect is
credited with the invention of the omnibus!
The Pennsylvania State experimental
farms are to be located in Chester county!
.EDwIN FORREST began an engagement In
Boston on Monday night. is l.,rsaoaos
A WOMAN was put in the station house at
Providence, few days since, for drunken
ness, who had on shawl worth $75. Y, I y
"A ROPE WALKER who broke both his legs
and one arm while performing at Mechanic
Falls, is at Portsmouth.
The liquor shops in St. Louis returned
sales to the amount of 100000. during the
month of September. H.. --sss
D. A. FINNEY, member of Congress from
the Twentieth district of Pennsylvania, has
gone to Europe for his health. -i Ill ~ :
Iris reported that General Sherman iss
writing book on the war, to be published
posthumously. ..,-t..y
NoRwALK. Ct, held its charter election
on Wednesday. and the Democrats were
successful by a largely Increased majority.
The Yale students are going to revive
their old Thanksgiving jubilee, this fall,
and make it public aud respectable affair,
to which ladies will be admitted. l-
THE University of Notre Dame, in In
diana, has a chime of twenty-three bells,
the largest of which was cast in France,
aud cost ten thousand dollars.
ARTHUR SKETCHLEY, the English humor-
ist, is lecturing in New York. Some of the
journals give him large and enthusiastic.
and others slim and yawning audiences.
The Passamaquoddy Indians, of Maine,
have chosen Pearpole Sabattus as delegate
TO the Legislature. He will doubtless sit
alongside of Sackabesin Swassian, the
Penobscot delegate.
TIE report of the trial of John II. Sur
ratt has been printed at the Government
printing office at Washington. 1t compris-
es two large volumes Qegal size) of more
than seven hundred pages each. ~
THE Connecticut Legislature having con-
diticnally appropriated $4,000 for the
establishment of State Industrial School
for Females, efforts are being made in New
Haven to carry the project into execution
THE Chicago Republican thinks that Mrs.
Lincoln's course may be accounted for by
the fact that s'she is monomaniac"-made
so by the shock fher husbands assassina-
tion-and that her monomania runs on in
come.
ANDREW Brown was found dead in his
bed, at Steubenville, Ohio, on Sunday. He
had been drinking freely, which brought
on an attack of heart disease, and caused his
death.
ANeminent physician of the last genera
tim, speaking OF the progress of medical
science in his day, said "When graduated
had dozen remedies for every disease;
when retired from practive, l had a dozen
diseases for every remedy"
AS JOHN ATWOOD was at work in saw
mill at Cilleyville, N. H., on Friday even
ing last, his coat caught upon a circular
saw, drawing him upon it and saving
three ribs, portion OF one lung and one
shoulder entirely off. He died next day.
THERE'S our grandmother, says con-
temporary, striking instance why women
should vote. She's paid taxes on a dog for
the last ten years, and now declares she
won't stand it any longer-she'll either
vote or kill the dog!
MODERATE Republicans in Ohio are de-
irving consolation from the fact that while
the Democrats have a majority in the
Ohio Legislature, said majority is mainly
composed of able and experienced legisla-
tors. 1t would be well if the defeated par
ty could always have the same consolation.
THEREFORE TILToN in lecture in Lewis
ton, Me-, said that the first two-thirds of
the present century will be noted in his
tory for the negro question; and the last
third for the woman question. He believed
the only marvel of the next century would
be that the present could ever have denied
woman her full political rights.
A NUMBER of American ladies in Rome
have been engaged in embroidering flag
for the Papal Zouaves. In presenting it to
the Pope they spoke of the flag as ian en-
blem of the hearty wishes our hearts enter
tain that the indefatigable zeal of your
Z)uaves may become under all circum-
stances the defense of the Pontificial
throne"
STATE NFws