Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-08

SCI per w. H. H. SHINN.
Return certificates will be given by the
Secretary of the Convention FOR roads not
selling round trip tickets. Z ia - =
News of the Day.
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GENERAL NEWS. -
GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
1861.
.CaoauEr playing on ice is becoming cus-
tomary.
PIG fights are the newest development
of low life In California. afH3
1THE Prussian soldiers now get five and a
half dollars per month.
EIGHTY white families in Lexington, KY,
are reported to be in q starving conition. z
ANDREW JOHNSON is nominated for next
President by three newspapers in Tennes-
see.
AIRS from the ssGrsnd Duchess" now en-
liven the Sunday concerts in New York.
LAWYERS, editors and idiots, are exempt
ed from serving on juries in Montana.
AN American gentleman has purchased
Dore's picture of the Baden gamblers.
GEN. Lew. Wallace, is lecturing in In
diana.
THE street railroad company at Terre
Haute, Ind, has revoked all free passes
and will grant no more.
The Southern Relief Association, of Bal
timore, are arranging for another grand
fair in that city. to begin on the 18th inst.
THs Lansingbug (N. Y.,Gdsette, founded
in 1898, celebrates New Years by the pur-
chase of fresh type. s
THEODORE TILToN's name now apperrs
at the head of the Independents columns
as editor. This contradicts statement
that Mr.. Tilton had left the Independent.
esOvER 100000 letters were sent to Europe
from the New York Post-office last week,
and 5000 foreign letters were received
during the same time.
An effort is being made among the
friends OF, Fitz Green Halleck to raise an
amount sufficient to erect monument In
Guilford to the poets memory.
In the trial of the negrgo leaguers at
Pickens rceurthouse, South Carolina, re-
Gently, for murder, q negro witness con-
fessed that each negro, on joining the
league, binds himself by an oath never to
reveal anything that passed, on pain of
having his head cut on. .saisss'a..
On the al of this month the Hoosac
Mountain had been tunnelled to a. distance
Of 709S feet. The distance through the
mountain is 25,03l feet (about ~ miles),
and there consequently remains a distance
of 1888 feet to accomplish.
BUNCH Of shingles recently taken from
the wreck of a British transport that went
ashore at Castine, Me-, in 1873, was as sound
as when it was shipped in England, al
though it has lain in the wreck nearly 100
years.
A DISPATCH is said to have been received
in New York city that Judge Busteed is
dying in Mobile from the effects OF the
wounds recently received in an encounter
with the District Attorney. His wife and
two children have left for Mobile.
Mrss LOUISA STAR has just received from
the Royal Academy in England the royal
gold medal and scholarship of EGO for ex-
of Art in London. In this school there are
one hundred and seven young women, an
increase of thirty-four over the number
under Instruction last year. The First gold
medal given by the queen, to be competed
for annually by the students of this school,
has been awarded to Alice Elfrida Manly
for three groups of flowers from nature.
This experiment., which is novel one in
England, seems to be completely success
full s-lt atis 81 ata
OFFIcrAL reports Of the debates in the
French Chamber of Deputies are made and
printed, but the censorship reserves the
right to amend or even to strike out what
is not pleasing to the Government. At the
sitting of the Corps Legislatif on the 9Th,
M.Pelietan made complaint on this sub
sject He said. .sAt the last sitting of the
Chamber, when the Minister of State spoke
of revolutionary bands who had invaded
the Poptifical territory Interrupted. him
by remarking, That is how Austria spoke
in 1881 of the two Princes Bonaparte.'
The Monite,r has reported my words cor
rectiy, Sat the analytical summary makes
me speak as follows That is how Austria
spoke in 1881 OF Prince Charles Bonaparte. :
These were not my Words Isaid, the two
Princes Bonaparte,' because there were in
1913 two precursors Of Garibaldi. One OF
them is dead, the other now reigns.
STATE NEWS.
= WE regret to learn, says the Highland
County Ne,os, that f. J. Bumgarner, OF
Paint township, one of the County Com
missioners, is lying very low with typhoid
fever. His condition is critical, but his
physicians still have hopes of his recovery,
which we II ust may be realized.
The Hamilton Telegraph says: Last Sat.
urday, a large gray eagle was killed, a few
miles north of this city, on the Four Mile
Creek, by Mr.. Daniel Longtellow. The
"proud birdn measured, from the tip OF one
wing to the tip of the other, seven and 8
half feet.
. LAST Monday evening, about z o'clock
the alarm of fire was sounded, causei by
the burning of frame dwelling situated
on the hill at the south end Of West street
The flames had made considerable head
vay before the alarm was given, and owing
to the combustible nature of the building,
and the strong wind blowing, it was found
impossible to check the fire, until the build
ing was entirely consumed. 1t belonged
to 81. 3. Scarborough, and was unoccupied.
The origin Of the fire is mystery, and the
facts seem to warrant suspicion that it was
The work Of an incendiary. The value OF