Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-25
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

GoLD closed in New York yesterday
evening at 1898. sAsbH
THERE is a widowers' club in Rocheste-,
NY. One of the members recently made
up his mind to get married again, and the
rest of them to the number of 18, met to
present him with silver tea set and their
well wishes. asaWe blF.ess
The Homesuiue (Miss.) I" Independent" !"
noticing the establishment of a steam brew
cry, gets off decided bull. 1t says: 1--WE
are always glad to see imported articles
manufactured at home, at greatly reduced
prices" "'s- s'e~
THE manager of London concert saloon
gives his pa irons three ballets, 200 dancers,
60 instrum entslists, singers, acrobats,
mimics, pictures, latest kilograms, evening
papers and ten orchestral pieces, all for six
pence. E4a rt4E
A LARGE waterspout was observed on the
Susquehanna river, near Binghampton,
New York, few days since. 1t was about
twenty-five feet high, and moved with q
loud roaring noise. When lit broke. the
ground for several rods on land was deluged
with water. 5 3 y %. g -
MARGARET EVANS, domestic employed
upon farm on Staten Island. had quar-
rel with one of the farm hauds, named
James Doherty, few days since, and in
order to obtain revenge. put arsenic in his
coffee. Hedied in great agony.
&C. r. ME1srER, matchmaker, drowned
himself at St. Louis, on the 9th inst. For a
~ = 1,I, ~ a.
or construct a clock that should immortal
ize his name and win the admiration of
mankind, This desire so fastened itself
upon hfs mind that he became insane.
WApoLrE woLFF, q merchant, who closed
business in Richmond, recently, has been
brought back to that city from Alabama,
charged wit h obtaining goods on fraudu-
lent preten ces from parties there. Heahad
dealt largely in Baltimore, New York and
Cincinnati. "a IA are
un1uYfg& STATE NEWS. ef{aa!og
OUR Berlin Heights correspondent, says
the Sandusky Register. under date of July
18th, writes: sour town was visited by a
tremendous hail storm yesterday, doing
very great damage to the grape crop. I
know not what other damage has been
DONE"
OK Wednesday evening, while the Pitts
burgh Express was stopping for woodland
water, at the depot, at London, q German
lad, about eighteen years of age, direct from
the old world,snd en- route to join his broth
or in st. Louis, got off the train, stepped
- 11of f<Nfh
turning found the train in motion, and in
attempting to get on, fell; one leg across
on the track, the car wheels passing over
and literally cutting it off just below the
knee, and crushing the thigh bone nearly
to the hips. He was picked up and carried
to the Brentzel House, where he soon after
died. -fEr -
GEORGE S. WEIGH, who was some time
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for
Morgan. county, Ohio, says the Marietta
Times, died JulyS3, of delirium tremens.-
He had been sent to Jail, by Mayor J. A.
Adair, of McConnelsville, fore keeping a
tippling shop. The sentence was seven
days imprisonment and twenty-five dollars
fine. Welch had been drinking hard for
some time before; and was drunk when In
csrcerated. He-had a half pint of whisky
about his person. This was taken from
him'by the Sheriff, agreeably to the rules
of the prison. He was put into the hall,
with two cells to stay in-the mittimus not
allowing the Sheriff to send him up stairs
During the night he had no rest-he saw
dogs, snakes, and hideous phantoms. He
died horribly.
ONE of the most atrocious acts that has
ever been committed within the peaceful
quiet township of Penn. or in the county
Of Highland, says the Htlls6orough Gazette,
was committed at Samantha, six miles
North of this place, on Saturday evening
last, between six and seven o'clock, result
ing In the death of DR.. Brice Cooper, OF
that place, and formerly resident in this
fmmediate vicinity. 6s BW
1t seems that for some cause or other, an
embittered state of feeling had existed for
some time previous to the commission OF
this horrid deed, between DR.. Cooper and
John. A. Starr, 9. grocery keeper, or store
keeper of the village. As DR.. Cooper was
passing Stsrr's door, Starr called him
(Geopera In, and dunned him for the pay
ment Of . small account which. he (Starr)
held against him. This gave rise to some
controversy, in which Starr struck DIR.
Cooper on the back of the head with a cane,
knocking him down and causing death to
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