Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-20
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEW

News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York Saturday at
1885.
T.B. ALpRICH is stated to be the editor
of Euery Saturday.
THERE are seventy miles of street rail-
way in New Orleans.
In Paris there are S12 restaurants, 1864
cafes and breweries, 1928 wine shops and
2OS table d'hotes.
BLACK oxide of manganese has been dis
covered in the coast range of mountains
near San Joaquin, California.
STEEL billiard balls, it is reported, are
manufactured in Europe. They are high
ly elastic and not liable to crack.
THE Allentown, (Pa.) rolling mill turns
out 400 tons of rails per week. The daily
product is 266 rails, 80 feet long, weighing
$50 pounds.
A RESIDENT of our State, who is employ
ed as clerk or book-keeper in another
State, cannot take the benefit of the Bank
rupt act in the district where he is employ
ed, as he neither resides nor carries on bus
mess there. So says Judge BlatchfoId. in
reference to New York clerks living in
New Jersey.
Mrs. DIsRAELI, at an entertainment Civ
en- in London, since her husband became
Premier, was literally blaze of diamonds.
She wore head-dress of black velvet,
quite covered with clusters of them; and
strings of diamonds, kept in their places by
emerald and diamond butterflies, fell over
the body of the dress.
TIE Canadian House of Commons on May
long debate, mo otion to reduce the salary
of the Governor General to $4,000 year,
to cut down by 1919 per cent. the saleries
of all Govern ment employees receiving
more than $500 annually, and to prohibit
all extra allowance for special service.
TIE new opera house at Hartford Ct.
will be 100 by so feet, and the stage will be
40 feet deep by 80 feet in width, leaving an
auditorium 80 feet square. The parquet
will seat 1000 persons, the dress circle 600,
the family circle 400 and the gallery 200
A wide promenade balcony, rs feet long, is
to be attainable from the parquet, and fur
nishes one of the modes of egress.
STATE NEWS.
The population of Pomeroy, as given by
the Banner, is 5,549. divided as follows:-
1.4l4 Americans; 1851 Germans; 694 Welsh;
125 English; 1872 Irish; AZ Scotch; 4 Portu-
guese; Danes, and $50 Negroes.
The CircleuiUe Union says: Owing to the
heavy rain, the races, which opened at
Chillicothe on Thursday of last week,
proved failure. Only two came off. The
owners of the finest horses were unwilling
to have them run for fear of injury.
AN ordinance has been passed by the
Council of Mt. Vernon, prohibiting the
playing Of ball within the city limits. For
every offense there is to be fine not ex-
ceeding five dollars, and the party Offend
ing must pay the cost of the prosecution.
The Athens Messenger says: On Sunday
morning last, Jonathan FL. Green, the man
who, several years since, created consider
able furore throughout this State by lee
turing as a reformed gambler, was lodged
in our county Jail on charges of larceny
and embezzlement. Green was quite pop
ular during the period of his lectures, and
his eloquence in depicting the horrors of
agambler's life, and the evils of gambling,
are described as being wonderful. He will
be tried at the next term of the Court of
Common Pleas.
Ro1s -, \
excitement was produced in our town and
neighborhood last week, by the taking up
and impounding of large lot of cows and
calves, from the neighborhood of East Rich
land. Mr.. G. Pickering, with some assist
ance, drove quite number of COWS through
our village on last Thursday, which were
thought to be rather thin for market pur-
poses. 1t turned out that he had taken
them up under the law to restrain cattle,
&C., from running at large, and brought
them In for the purpose of putting them in
the pound provided for that purpose. Dur
ing the day the owners arrived, thorough
ly incensed at Mr.. P. for taking up their
cattle, paid their Is cents pound fees. and
drove their cows home, but while in town
had Mr.. P. arrested for violating a town
ordinance by riding over the sidewalk. and
his aine and r1sts amounted to over four
dollars.
TIE Delaware Herald says: Sometime
since, the proprietor Of one of our hotel,
purchased some vinegar from one of oul
abusinsss4m which was warranted by thu
tssllertosbsa pSi1e article OF cider vinsgar
Yaking it Home, he put some of It in 6
'cruet in q castor, and placed the castor or
the table in the dining-room At suppe,
that evening, some of this pure, unadulter.
ated juice of the apple was accidentally
spilled upon the table cloth. When IavinO
the knives, forks, &c, that night, prenara.
tory for breakfast, knife was place1 or
that the blade lay in the spot which had
been saturated with the yenegar and in the
morning it was discovered that all the
blade and half the handle had been eaten
mp BY the pure cider vinegar. And all that
saved the table and all that was on it from
being deyeured the next night, was &c
xhrour tba hoftIo md acid out tlo ,,,;.ln