The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-06-04
Uncle Sam has yet $40, 900
acres left Of his farm.s

SO far recovered bis health as to DO
able to return to W Washington.
1t is thought that the grass crop
in Ohio this season will be the
heaviest cut for ten years.
They have big trees in Australia.
One was lately cut down theie, 10
feet in diameter and $50 feet high.
/ Several members Of the New
York Legislature have been Indict-
ed for bribery, in connection with
recentrailroad legislation.
There are three hundred Cash
mere goaIs owned by one gentle
man in Clarke county. They were
brought from Asia Minor.
The Old and Now School Pres
byterian Assemblies have adopted
the basis of reunion, subject to the
action oftho Prcsbyteries.
The wheat harvest has commen.
ced in Mississippi and and Arkan-
sas. The first Of the crop was in
the Memphis market last week.
The Ohio contested election case
comes up in the House this week.
The majority Of the committee rer
port in favor ofgiying the seat to
| Delano.
w. W. Watts, residing at Adams.
willie, Muskingum County, Ohio,
was kicked to death ty q stallion,
on Friday, whilc passing behind
the animal in his stable.
An enthusiastic Republican rat,
ifeation meeting was held in
GAINESVILLE, Saturday night. The
candidates and platform wore hear
tily indcrscd.
! At q Republican ratification
meeting at Bangor, Maine, Hon
: Hannibal Hamlin made q speech
J, warmly indorsing both Grant ant
/; Colfax.
Official returns from the entir,
:. State OF Florida show 5000 MAORI
5 " for tho Constitution; for Reet
r (Republican), for Governor, 6,7O'
{ majority.
General Grant and Speaker Col
y fax will, it is announced, star
= about the first of July for Colora
g do. They expect to bc gone 70
, two months. The trip is solcl
9 for the recupcration'o Of health.
!, The Sunday-school parade !
!, Brooklyn, last Tuesday, was th
/, grandest over seen on this cont
> mont. Nearly 25, 900 children, rel
resenting liz different school
participated In the exercises.
: A battlo was fought with Ii
dians in Paradise Valley, Nortl
Of eastern California, recently. I'll
10 fighting lasted four hours. I'll
II savages wore driven from their pt
II si,ion with considerable loss. I'll
Indians were. armed with rife
10 probably presented as part ofthe
al annuity from the Government.
IN That world,.ronowncd champic
of law and order, the editor of Il
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, says
= Ex. GOV. Brown: "The infamol
4 renegade and notorious dem
: eogue, Joseph H. Brown alias o
I. collards, has been making himse
!, very conspicuous among the Rad
:. calls at Chicago. A tar and feat
{, er reception on his arrival hon
= would teach him q little decency
The GAINESVILLE Courier says
W meeting Of the County Auditors
d. the several counties along the lii
'o' Of tho Cincinnati and zanesvi
n Railroad, was held at Cincinni
" on Tuesday last, for the purpose
fixing the valuation of the propc
r. ty of that company. The valu
Do ton determined upon was $3.50, OF
nc about $50 900 less than tho apprais
oh oment OF last year, This deorcO
al was owing to cash account, wo
fl. on tho limo of tho road. and 9th
incidontals. The basis of valr
tion was precisely the same as Ii
- year,