The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-24
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CLIPPINGS.

CLIPPINGS.
The recent assessment of the real
estate in Baltimore amounts 10 over
two hundred million dollars.
A Des Moines Qowa) dispatch
says the Republican majority will
be about %, 900, and the same party
will have over four-fiiths of the
next Legislature.
Thurston, The Missouri giant, is
thirty-seven years old, weighs two
hundred and thirty pounds, and
towers to the hight of seven feet
seven and a half inches.
Secretary McCulIoch expresses
the opinion that Mr.. Pendletion S
plan for paying the 500 bonds in
grcenbacks is, substantially, repu-
diation, and th4. il will not be adopt
ed.
AT the serenade to General Shcr-
idan on Monday night, the crowd
in BowdOin Square was SO great
that over fifty ladies tainted. One
had her ribs broken, and others
were more or less injured.
A Chicago paper states that Mr..
Lincoln had on deposit in Wash :
ington at The time OF his death,
SIS 900, in addition to S25, 900 vot-
ed his widow by Congress, and
that his Springfield property was
valued at Sic, 900 in 1861.
The Oldest lnhabitant in ALE.
gheny county. Maryland, was mar
ried the other day, at the ripe age
ofone hundred and two, to second
wife. The happy couple are now
on their bridal tour northward.
Professor Blot has resumed his
lectures in New York, on the art ol
cooking. In opening the course
he said; "Some people think soup
is a kind of slop, containing but
little nutriment. On the contrary
the substance OF ten pounds of meat
can be put in bowl OF soup"
The internal revenue assessment
on the profits of the sale of the old
Lafayette and Indianapolis Rail
road has been fixed at two millions
two hundred and eight thousand
dollars. The tax is five per cent.
which will put the snug sum of ont
hundred and eleven thousand ant
four hundred dollars into tho ma
tional Golfers.
The Lebanon (Ohio) Star says
1.-TWO members of the society o
Shakers on Tuesday voted, thoil
ballots only containing the words
For the Constitutional Amend
ment-Yes.' They considered the
question involved in the arlendmen
one of principle, and ofsuch a ma
ture that they were justified il
voting"
Richmond receives the news of the
recent Democratic success with
rejoicing. Three years ago thu
trenches around that city, while
bristling with confederate bayonets
rang with cheers for Mcclellan and
Pendleton, the Democratic stand
ard bearers. The Democracy move
changes.
The schoolmaster is abroad il
japan. Our well known friends
G. P. Putnam Il Son, have jus
shipped ten tuns of school books tc
the "Japs" in single cash invoices
amounting to $4,000, irrespectiv
of previous consignments A sol
of Mr.. Putnam is also about to sal
for Japan to establish and represen
the firm of G. 2. Putnam & Son il
that far countree." Thus tn
cranky Japs succumb to the Yam
kee chaps. N. Y. Tribune.
i Colonel Forney, writing abou
, the Paris Exposition says; "TLt
I which panied me most in our d'
q partment was the worst picture {
D Mr.. Lincoln ever painted an
| when l noticed how many person
4 stood before it, and how UNIVERSAL
, his fame was diffused among til
;. working classes Of the old world,
n regretted that something mol
s worthy of his virtues had not bee
a procured"
l. A little negro chimney sweep vi
>. burned to death at Erie, Pennsy
i vania, a few days ago, while clea
l. ing out the main flue Of bar
@ building. A fire was built In
D. apartment whose occupants we
g ignorant of the boys employmer
Alady of Ridgeville, Lorain cou
It ty, Ohio having the rheumatism
0, her hip, recently employed
y EIyria doctor, who administer,
!. morphine, by blowing it into I
et veins. 1t affected the whole 81
of tenn, went to tho heart, and caas
her death in an hour.