Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-18
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.
GoLp closed in New York yesterday at
1441s.
THERE is no church accommodation for
over twelve millions of the people of the
United States.
A SNOW WHITE deer was killed near Yer
sailles, Morgan county, Illinois, few days
ago.
A CAVERN and subterranian lake, whose
depths cannot be fathomed, have been
found in Wyaudot county, Ohio.
A CHILD was born of negro woman, in
Missouri lately, which had long hair, sew
eral teeth, and could talk.
The Chicago Republican has cost its pro-
prietor $4,000 above receipts. The ma
terial is worth some $4,000, and the paper
is just reaching paying basis.
A MAN named Ambrose, from Buffalo,
New York, who had come to Nashville,
Tennessee, with 100000 to invest, left in
disgust after witnessing the farce OF the
election.
SOME of the farmers of Alabama, we see
It has been stated, have already sent an
agent for tour hundred Germans, and will
have them comfortably provided for in
ample time. That looks like business
PHILADELPHIA is examining with curios-
ity car for use on common roads which
laws down the track before it and takes it
up after the car passes over it.
AMONG the exceedingly proper ladies of
the East who never go out without being
yeiled, it is noticeable that the prettier the
face the thinner the veil.
MrLwAuKEE received 1862 2l4 bushels of
wheat in September, and shippeu nearly
the same amount. On the first OF this
month the receipts were almost 100000
bushels.
Our of the sixty workmen engaged in
laying the Nicholson pavement covering
the wood blocks with tar, in New Orleans,
not one has been attacked with yellow
fever.
81 SAY, Jones, how is it that your wife
dresses so magnifcently, and you always
appear out at the elbows?" You see,
Thompson, my wife dresses according to
the GaSette of Fashion, and dress accord
ing to my ledger"
A MAN in Milwaukee sold city lot and
a suburban farm for over fifty thousand
dollars, which came into his hand by the
foreclosure of a seven hundred dollar mort
gage.
JAMES ANDREWS, of Pittsburgh con-
tracts to build the stonework of the St.
Louis and Illinois bridge for 100000, and
to finish it by December, 1869.
AN enormous marine turtle, of a species
unknown to fishermen and seamen, was
recently captured at Norpeague Harbor,
few miles west of Montauk Point, Long
Island, which competent judges estimate
will weigh 700 pounds.
Mrs. Senator Sumner has gone to Europe,
having lett her husband on account of his
disagreeable temper and domestic tyranny.
This happy couple were scarce out of the
honeymoon. Instead of reconstruc:ing the
South, Sumner had better reconstI uct his
temper and his own household.
Ir is stated that the crop of grapes on the
islands in the vicinity of Sandusky, Ohio,
will be large this year. The Isabella is the
principal grape grown on the banks OF the
Ohio, the Catawba being subject to the rot,
but on the shores of Lake Erie the Catawba
ripens we'll. The price of wine in that
quarter varies from fifty cents to one dollar
and fifty cents per gallon, depending upon
the quality, the juice from the grapes with
out pressure being the best. The Delaware,
oil mi
cultivated along Lake Erie.
A GENERAL mass meeting OF the heirs of
Anika Jantz Borgardus will be held at
Pine Hall, Poughkeepsie, New York, on
Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1867, at l o'clock P.
NJ. All branches of the family are expect
ed to be represented, for the purpose of
united action in regard to the Trinity
Church, corporation of New York, prop
erty, and to obtain lands which were forci-
bly, attained and are still held by that cor
poration. Let all the heirs rally. By Or
der of the Executive Committee of the
Anika Jantz Association.
JAY COOKE, the great banker, owns an
island in Lake Erie, which is called Isle
Gibraltar, and to the luxurious retreats of
which he sends his friends to enjoy them
selves in fishing and bathing. The editor ola
Sandusky paper has been shown the bank
er's printed cards, by means of which his
friends travel, at his expense, to and from
this Gibraltar island to their homes in the
East. Every month the cards are sent in
with the bills attached, and the rich man
settles up the travelling expenses. His
expenses are great, but his income is equal
to that of half dozen European princes.
STATE NEWS.
THE tobacco crop of Belmont county has
been shorn of one-half of its proportions by
the long continued dry weather and the
succeeding severe frost.
The Madison County Union says that two
pers ms have died in that county within
two or three weeks of milk sickness-Mi-
chael Dwyer, near Somerford, and Mr.. Ira
cy, of P Paint township. Several others have
had the disease, but have recovered. 20
The citizens of Crestline held meeting
few weeks since, and resolved to donate
$1,000 and five acres of land to company