Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-09

GENERAL NEwS.

News OF the Day.
GENERAL NEwS.
GoLD closed in New York Saturday at
1865.
The assessed value of property in Mon
tana.,is $6.3OS llS. Ts,1vVa.s 3ssE
IMMENSE peat beds have been discovered
In Nevada.
AN American weekly newspaper is to be
started in Paris. s tHss3
DUMAS JR.. has made $4,000 from his
"Idees de Madame Aubray."
New ORLEANS is cutting up its five dol
lar bills to make change. 81 efs
GEN. GEoRGEY was recently hooted out
of the Hungarian Chambers of Deputies.
POULTRY sells in Piltsleld, Mass, for 121a
cents per pound. = - F-AtC t-A
Two tons of sponge are prepared daily
for bedding at Lebanon, N. FL.
Gu1z,r is engaged on the third volume
of his Religious Meditations.
The cholera is now reported in New Or
leans. 5 N
wHY Is love like canal boatf Because
it Is an Internal transport.
BosroN city pays three thousand dollars
a week for its gas, and is going to petition
the next Legislature for leave to build new
works.
The season has thus far been the driest In
Western Canada In the memory of the odd
est inhsbitant."
Iris reported that Edward A. Pollard,
recently wounded by the young, Wises, is
Threatened wich 10 ,kj aw. %. eAI~'
ANTHONY TRoLLopE and Edmund Yates
are going to emulate Dickens, and give
readings from their own works.
AN ingenious Frenchmen,. it is said has
psrentsd an illuminating cane tor bache-
lors who return home late at night.
RICH gold bearing quartz is reported to
have been, discovered in Stanley county,
NJ C32S11 I9RC3 1880 HdEot-
The trial of President General Mosquera
for treason. before the Senate at Bogota,
has resulted In the infliction OF $i2 fine
aud two years s'gimprisonment. To-!
"A WESTERN @fast'' orator, who induIges
in astonishing metaphor, recently spoke of
"pirate barks. which stood on the fence"
or 'basely fled" s5e.,if ! a5
A BLACK man and white woman want
ed to get married in Providence, {Rs I.). a
few days ago, but couldn't find clergy
man to doit.
HIGHWAY robbers In Montana are known
a. i.roaI agents" and their sworn enemies
are the ..Vigilantes. who hang them sum-
marily when caught.
STATE NEWS.
The Chillicothe Advertiser favors the en-
larsement OF the Oaio Canal, so that it can
be nsvisated by Steamboats,.
A DITCH, nine miles long, is to be dug
from Belyue, Huron county, to carry away
the surplus water accumulating in and
about Belvue. 1t will cost $12 600.
OBsfLIN, o., has been made a recruiting
station for the regular army.
DAYTON. o., is to have twenty-five acre
skating park.
MRS. GRACE PRENTIss, widow of Samuel
Prentiss, died few days ago, near Mon
roeyille, at the age of one hundred and
one years and seven months.
The Marietta Register says that lad.
bunting on Duck-creek last week, shot an
owl whose wings measured four feet six
inches from tip to tip.
THE Belefontaiae Republican says that
there is fully three-quarters of an average
crop of corn in Logan county this year.
McCoY, who has been on trial at Steu-
benville for killing Mcdonald, was found
guilty OF murder in the second degree.
A DEER which had SWAN from the east
shore of the Maumee river, was captured
on Adams street, Toledo, on the 18th ult.
IT is stated that the smallpox has appear
ed at Alliance, o., but is thought that it
will be kept from spreading.
A deer was killed near Circleville a few
DAYS ago, the first that has been seen in
that region for several years. n i}-Es--
THE BarnesuiAe Enterprise says the small
pox has broken out in Bealsville, Monroe
county, O..
= DEATH OF AN OLD CITIzEN.-Major John
Van Pearse died at his residence near this
citv on Thursday last. The deceased was
in his 72d year, and had lived in and near
Lancaster for about 60 years. His remains
were inferred at the family cemetery of
Mr.. Applegate, east of the city, with the
rites and ceremony of the Masonic Order,
of which he. was a, member.-Lancaster
Eagle 2Sth nit.
= MRS. NANCY INGHAM, who died on the
18th lult., had been a resident of this city
since 179S. having come when a child of six
years Of aye. Her maiden name was JUS
tice. She was the mother of w. j. Ingham.
j. NJ. Ingham and q. P. Ingham.-Chilli-
cothe Gazette. ''e'
A,DAY orstwo ago, says the Buewus Fo-
runs, q gang OF pickpockets made a raid on
the passengers on artrain at Crestline:z A
portion of them went into the forward car.
directly after supper, and told the passen-
gers to go further back. as that ear would
be left. Another, lot at the same time or
suit was a general crush on the platforms
of the two cars. A gentleman who sus-
pected trickery, shouted: .There are pick
pockets on board!" But the warning was
too late in one instance. as one man lost
his wallet containing a hundred dollars.
The following, which we clip from the
Enquirer. indicates commendable scheme:
I'VE understand that there is PROPOSE
tion before the different lodges of Odd Eel
lows in the State to organize protective
SYSTEM. II IS proposed that each member
of the society shall contribute two dollars
as standing fund and WI en- a memhe,