Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-08
News of the Day.

News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
1421s.
In Italy, the gold premium is fifteen per
cent.
TIE health of John Bell, of Tennessee,
is reported to be much improved.
SAMUEL. LOVER. the Irish poet, is about
to publish a complete edition of his poems.
TIE Supreme Court of Vermont granted
II divorces during its recent term.
ARCHBISHOP MANSING, OF Westminster, is
to be made Cardinal.
DISPATCH from Halifax says hundreds
of families there are now living on dog-f1sh.
RECRUITING for the Papal service is going
on vigorously at st. John, New Brunswick.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has been nominated
for the presidency of the Texas Pacific
Railroad.
A DETROIT Justice the other day married
couple whose united weight was $50
pounds, the bride scoring 400.
THE famous Antilles Legion, in the Pa
pal service, numbers 1885 men. The three
regiments of Papal zouaves number 5s42.
1T is stated that the cattle belonging to
Philip F. Weller, of Bucks county, Pa, are
dying with the rinderpest.
Is is stated that there is danger of the
falling to ruins of the famous leaning tow
er of Pisa, in Italy.
MosAFFER EDDIN MIRA, the heir to the
throne of Persia, has been getting married.
The prince and his wife are each sixteen
years of age.
The London Post, speaking of the Clerk
enwell explosion, says that mot single
foot of the portion of the wall blown
down was left standing
AN English girl baby has been named
Victoria Albert Grant Suttie, and the
Queen has sent her a present to make up
for the sad infiiction, if possible.
SOME thief stole a piece of Grape and
white ribbon from the door of house In
which child lay dead, in Baltimore, on
Saturday night.
IT having been stated that Tupper is en-
gagged on nursery rhymes, an exchange
thinks they will be valuable to put children
to sleep.
THE Hartford (Conn.) Times says "the
crime of theft has been constantly on the
increase since the organization of the police
department"
BArEMAN's OPERA BoUFFE TROUPE con-
cluded very successful engagement in
Washington on Saturday night, and are
now giving the 3"Gra nd Duchess" to the
Baltimoreans.
ACCORDING to the Rochester linton the
average price of wheat in that city was one
dollar and twenty-eight cents a bushel,
from 1852 to 1864. Last year the average
price was two dollars and forty cents.
A CITIZEN of New London recently ap-
peared before the Assessors and desired
that $1,000. which he had at interest, might
be added to his list. The affair created a
great deal of astonishment.
The Austrian Emperor has written
letter of thanks to Tegethoff for the man.
ner in which he performed the service of
recovering the remains of the murdered
Macmillan.
STATE NEWS.
SPOTTED fever has broken out near
Brownsville, Licking county, and several
deaths have already occurred therefrom.
WE notice from our exchanges, that re-
ligious meetings are being held in many
parts of the State, with good results, since
the week of prayer"
The Fayette county Herald says q wild
animal of the Lynx species was killed
about four miles south of Washington, on
Saturday OF week before last.
The Weeklysays that the great revival,
at the M. E.. Church in New Lexington,
continues with unabated interest. 40 per-
sons have already united with the Church.
The business men of Norwalk have
pledged that town for 100000 to aid in
the construction of railroad from Toledo
to Massillon, provided the route selected ia
via Norwalk.
THERE is living in the Sixteenth Ward.
in Cincinnati, an old Frenchman who stood |
near the scaffold where the great French
tyrant, Robespierre, was guillotined, the |
blood of the victim actually speuting in
his face.
Our well known citizen Michael Gugen-
ham, says the Ur6ana Union, was robbed
last Friday might, about IL O'Clock, while
on his way home. The robbery took
place on East Water street, in the vicinity
Of the Second M. E. Church.
The personal property of the Cincinnati
newspaper establishments is returned to
The Assessor as follows, for taxation
9Isese Company, 500, ,s4s; M. Halstead &
Co., Commercial, s66,046; Faran & Nc
Lean, Enquirer, $1,000; c. w. Starbuck &
jo., Times, $37, ,134.
ABOUT ten o'clock on Sunday night the
lwelling of Mr.. Murphy, two miles south
# Lima, says the Gazette, caught fire, and
vas entirely consumed, together with the |,
1ost of the contents. The house was story
nd-a-half frame, and the loss, about One
thousand Dollars, falls heavily upon an
hard-working man. There was
% insurance.
On Saturday last, two boys, aged IA and a
years, were caught in the act of placing
Distractions on the track of the Dayton e. \ s
lichigan railroad, about two miles south e
Troy. Obstructions have been placed b
4 the road several times within a few b
onths, and the Company are determined p
break up that fendish practice. So saws r.
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