Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-01

FOR suPRgME JUDGE
WILLIAM 3. .FINCK, of Perry
ron MxMBER or BOARD OF PcBLro WORKS
ARTHUR HUGHES. of Cuyahoga.
FOR SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.
SAMUEL J. LAKEWOOD, OF Seneca.
FOR CLERK OF SUPREME COURT.
JOHN M. WEIR OF mahOning.
News OF tn Day
GENERAL NEWS
GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
l403S. Aas4A = =
THE cry of "hot corn" has commenced
In New York. Ess,. ,-~~sS.,S-,e-
SCARLET and blue are the fashionable
: colors for bathing dresses.
In San sFrancisco,s recently, woman
scolded her tipsy husband and put him to
bed, locking the door for safety. When he
awoke and found himself locked In. he be-
came alarmed, and climbed out OF the win
dow and broke his neck.
THE Queen Of Saxony has just issued a
decree by which she refuses admission to
her presence to all ladies, OF whatever rank,
who present themselves with their hair un-
combed. This Is leyelled at prevailing
wild Indian style of wearing the hair.
A NEW HAVEN paper states that four
regular physicians In Connecticut,all BROTH
ers, possess an fnfaIlible remedy for hydro
phobia, but will not divulge the secret
Ifthis be trEe, we agree with the journal
that they deserve the severest reprobation.
PRESENTATIONS are making to raise imme-
diately the wrecks OF the ships of war
sunk In Charleston harbor during the war.
They consist of the wehawkens Housaton-
ic and Guyascutis, the last named being the
submarine boat which sunk the Housa-
tonic. . s9aMGa
OK the oath of May, the body of the late
&Senator McDougall was buried, great
concourse attending, in the Lone Mountain
Cemetery, at San Francisco, within few
I yards Of the place of the sepulture of his
predecessors in the Senate, Baker and Bro.
derrick. a. tfil - . E iieI z /
A NEW rifle has made its appearance in
Pari., called the Ravageur, which, accord
ing to the assertions of its inventor, eclips-
es both The Needle gun and the Chasseport,
and can be. fired forty rounds per minute,
or 200 per hour. idhlafl
IT is stated that Mrs. Eunice Warner, for
merly of Great Darlington, Mass, became
another at thirteen years, grandmother
at twenty-seven, great-grandmother at
forty, great-great-grandmother at fifty
six and a great-great-great-gra grandmother
at seventy -four, after which she lived sew
eral years. s-
WILD CATS are said to be more numerous
in Connecticut than they were fifty years
ago. In the northern part OF Litchield
county many of them are shot. One weigh
ing twenty-six pounds and measuring
twenty inches high was recently shot in
Hartland.
A AGALvEsToN(T Texas)paper says that that
city at present lilies helpless and dead,
victim in the hands of band of despera-
does, who, finding that we are wholly in
different, too lazy or too poor to care for
the body polite, have come to prey upon
us with impunity. HEK8F
SPENCER, the flying man. has not been
successful in his flight. His trial before
the London (Eng) Aeronautical Society,
ended with the proof that he could make
speed horizontally, but he could not soar.
In this case Spencer's machine is not so
practical as velocipede.
TIE village of Charleston, ILL.,, was visit
ed on the 18th instant by terrific tornado.
The Catholic Church was blown down; the
roof of Cages mill was lifted off and car
ried over one hundred yards, and the roof
of the Charleston Hotel was blown off and
carried into the court house yard.
A PORTLAND, Me, paper tells of a gentle
man in that city, who, going out of his
house, stumbled over dog in the entry
and fell breaking his nose, and who then,
In trying to kick the dog kicked over the
hat stand. putting his ankle out of joint,
and disabling himself for three months.
Elss STATE NEWS. E
THE Gallipolis Journal says; A pint glass
bottle was unearthed by the workmen en-
gagged in grading the public square, a few
days ago, supposed to have lain there since
the first settlement of the place by the
French In 1898. as 1t was found near the
place where they built their first habita-
lions. -
THE Delaware Herald says: A few days
since Mr.. Matthias Kruck killed snake five
and one-half feet long, variegated in color
and measuring eight inches in circumfer-
ence the entire length. In the end of the
tail there was hard substance resembling
bone, perfectly white and clear as crystal.
When he first discovered it it was lying
stretched out full length upon striking it
with stick it rolled up like hoop
Nothing was ever seen like It in this neck
o. the woods, loose, before, and the query
Is, what kind of tarnal sarpint was 1t, and
where did it come from? H
The Marietta Register says: Near Day
ton, they are Dragging of an apple tree
brought from Columbia, Hamilton county,
sixty years ago, which Is a prolific bearer,
is over nine feet IN circumference, six feet
from the ground, and which has hollow
In one Of the lower branches wherein hens
have made nests, at different times. and
Matched over 500 chickens. The old Rhode
Island Greening. on Jonas 4ason's farm,
Adams township, this county, is seventy
three years old, trunk over ten feet in cir
cumference, branches spread thirty yards
in diameter, and it bore last year fifteen
barrels of apples, many of them measur-
ing. thirteen inches in circumference each.
TIE Stark County Democrat says: An
old relic was found last week on the farm
of a Mr.. Evans, some two miles from Bay
ard Station (on the c. & p. railway, in the
shape of an old French bayonet, which
must have been left there in 1894 by Gen.
Anthony Wayne's army, which was en-
camped on the place. The old relic was