Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-07
News of the Day,
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
1895.
AN English volunteer rifle corps, exer-
cising in field, were put to flight by
COW, all except one man, who dropped on
his knee and prepared co receive cavalry"
A COMPANY is organizing in San Fran
cisco to navigate the Colorado river to
Collville, which is 400 miles from Salt Lake
City, with design of diverting Mormon
trade.
THE beet root crop in Europe is not up
to the average, but in France the quality
of the best will make up for the deficiency,
and the manufacturers of sugar anticipate
aprotitable business.
CUBAN finances are ina bad way. The
Government is four months in arrears with
it's pension list, and when the Spanish Gov
ernment lately sent a rcquistion for $3OO,OOo,
barely quarter of that sum was in the
treasury.
A CoLoRED man returning to Danbury
and Bethel, Connecticut, after an absence
at sea of thirty years, claims fifty acres of
land and the buildings upon it, which he
alleges belonged to his mother at her death
several years ago.
A STRANGE disease, it is seid, has taken
possession of the horses in Wisconsin. as
they are apparently pining away and dy-
ing, and the cause of the disease cannot be
ascertained by the best veterinary surgeons
in the country.
AN assembly of fifteen single ladies was
held after church, at Phillipsburg. j.,
on Sunday afternoon, and, on quiet and
calm deliberation, resolved that they would
not encourage the advances of any gentle
man unless he was thoroughly temper
ance man.
MISS FLIrE's case has parallel in France.
A certain Mile. Solix has been haunting
courts of law for thirty years, claiming a
large property. She was stigmatized as
monomaniac, but persevered, and now gets
judgment for a million and half francs.
In Paris lately, young lady, about Is
years of age, committed suicide by throw
Jug herself from the summit of the column
in the Place Vendome, and died in few
minutes. In her pocket were directions,
written in pencil, that she should be con-
veyed to her mother, whose address in
Paris was given, and the unfortunate girl
ut the same time begged that the sad catas-
trophe should be broken to her parent as
gently as possible. The cause which led to
the rash act is not known, but it is said to
be connected with love affair.
The Syracuse Journal tells story of a
singing mouse in that city. 1t says that for
several nights gentleman has been awak-
ened by singular sound in the room, re-
sembling the gentle ripping of running
water, at times scarcely audible, then
swelling full and clear, filling the room
with melody. On lighting the gas the
SQUAD would cease, but exploring the room
in the dark to determine the precise locali-
ty, it would continually change position,
always evading the attempt to locate it,
The matter was quite mystery for several
nights, until on suddenly turning up the
gas while the sound was audible in one part
of the room, mouse was seen to hastily
run to his hole, where he quietly finished
his song without further molestation. The
Journal adds that the concert is given regu-
larly every Light. continuing an hour or
two, with short intervals.
The harem of the Supreme King of Siam
is so large that a week rarely passes in
which he does not announce, in peculiar
English to his friends in Bangkok and Bur-
nah, the birth of prince. His eldest son
lately died. and in the Siam Monitor, of
which he is himself said to be editor, he thus
thanks the public for their sympathy:-'S.
p. P. M. Mongkut, r. S.. the old bereaved
mournful father of the lamentcd Prince
Nooyal Nobhawongse Krom Mum Mahes-
uarsivavilas, begs to express his sincere
thanks to all who have lowered their flags;
showing their condoling sign in respect
and regard to the deceased prince and his
bereaved mournful royal father, during
the last three days and who being his and
the deceased princes friends, wrote to him
several sympathizing and condoling letters
on this present melancholy event, for mark
and respect of friendship with him; from
those who are in Bangkok, and moreo, er
from those who will no doubt write to him
on the subject of this sorrowful inevitable
event."
THE Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia on Tuesday delivered its decision
in the case of BENJAMIN r. CowEN v. JAS.
C. .WETMoRE. The latter was State Agent
OF Ohio, and was called on to surrender
the books and papers to the petitioner, but
refused. A rule was issued by the Court,
but the respondent failed to answer, and