Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-28
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GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York yesterday al
1897. 80 - ~ ~
IT took five columns of the official Paris
Moniteur to describe the ceremony of the
Prince Imperial receiving his first COM
munion.
DIR. NORMAN MCLEOD has returned from
his mission to India, and gone back to Scot
land. His health compelled him to leave
the East.
THE hospital, chapel, kitchen and dining
ing room of the Iowa Penitentiary were
destroyed by fire on the 10Th inst. No one
was injured.
UPWARD of sixty steamships, ships and
square-rigged vessels have been wrecked
in and about San Francisco harbor during
the past twenty years.
The Nesos and Advertiser at st. Gene
We've, Mo-, is published on a new plan, that
of intermingling English and German text
throughout its columns.
The authoress Of charming novel,
"Hood and Glove" published in England,
says that 'sAll day long Claude PAGES back
ward and forward like an overseer on a
Massachusetts cotton plantation"
TIE colored people of Mount Vernon, Mis-
souri,, have built the first schoolhouse ever
erected in that place. The whites have
been talking about building for a long
while, but the negroes have built.
A BUFFALO FISH, weighing 81 pounds,
was recently caught in corn field near
Kent, Newton county, Indiana. He had
found his way thither during freshet, and
fingered until the water was too low to get
out.
THE ex-King of Hanover, who has been
publishing a newspaper to support his
claims, has been sued by one of his editors
for pay. Considering that money is not
among his ex-majesty's wants, this looks
bad for royal honesty.
Mr.. STEPHEN E. DENTON, of the firm of
Benjamin Snow & Co.. paper manufacture
ers, vf Fitchburg, Mass, committed suicide
on Wednesday, by hanging himself in his
attic. Depression of spirits is supposed to
have been the cause of the act.
The LeClaire Qowa) Register tells of a
couple of blooming girls there, who row
across to Port Byron, Illinois, every morn
ing in a skiff, handling the oars in the most
approved style, teach school of ninety |
scholars all day, and row back again in the |
evening.
The dead body of man discovered in |
the cupboard of an unfinished house in the |
suburbs of Lonlon, has been identified by |
so many persons that the police are nom
plussed. Each individual is positively GER
tain that he can recognize the remains as
those of friend.
A CURIOUS shaped accidental formation
of rock has been discovered in soap stone
bed at Galesburg, Illinois. 1t resembles
gigantic foot, covered with partially torn
mo oscasin, and measures sixteen and one
half inches in length, and six and one
fourth inches across the heel. 1t weighs
twenty-five and one half pounds.
LEWIS LANE is under arrest in Pittsburgh |
on suspicion of poisoning his wife, who
died suddenly the other day after drinking
some whisky he had given her. A Aquantity
of drugs found in his possession are being
examined; as also the fragments of a bot
tie which he threw into the fire when ar
rested, and which, it is supposed, con-
tanned poison. The deceased was Lanes
sixth wife.
The Court of Cessation has recently pro-
nounced decision on the question as to
whether the bowling of watch dog could
be considered as contravention of the law
as to nocturnal disturbance. The point has
been decided negatively, the act not falling
under the application of the penal code
leaving. however, the neighbors whose rest
may thus be troubled to proceed by civil
process, or before the local authorities.
STATE NEWS.
TOLEDO, Ohio, by popular vote, has decid-
ed not to incur debt of $50O,00O for wa
terworks.
DR.. HALL and wife, of Piqua, who, some
weeks ago, were so frightfully mangled by
burglars, are both recovering.
A CATFISH, says the Beverly Citizen,
weighing fifty-eight pounds, was recently
caught in the Muskingum river.
TIE Jackson Herald learns that a mur.
der was committed at Portland, in that
county, one day last week, but has not
heard the particulars.
AT Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the case of
Mary L. Bowsher, charged with the muir
der OF her son by poison, after continu-
ance OF eight days, was closed on Friday.
The jury were absent three hours, bring
Ing in verdict of not guilty. She was
Immediately after removed to Jail to await
trial on two other indictments for the mur-
der of her two daughters. The evidence
against her is all circumstantial. Public
opinion is strongly against her.
The Tuscara,oas Advocate says that Mr..
George Huber, of Urichsville, died few
lays ago from the bite of large black
pider. He was removing some straw in
n Ice house, when the creature, which was
oncealed in the straw, bit him three times
n the arm. He paid but little attention
0, the wound, and experienced no i'll ef-
,ct from it for several days, but was
,en taken suddenly sick and died in a
sw hours, vomiting violently during the
me.