Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-06
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.


CioLD closed in New York yesterday at
1897.
sAPARRor died recently in Durham, Eng
land, at the age of rs years.
Mark TwAIN's first lecture in San Fran
cisco yielded s1so5 in gold.
BosToN has sent two million bean
poles to the State of Maine within the past
two months.
SArURN's rings are now at the point of
their greatest separation, and can be seen
to great advantage through telescope.
A CRooUET SET, in black walnut, has
been ordered by New Yorker, who 'does
not want to have things like anybody else.''
THREE hundred Zouaves have left st.
Johns, Canada. for Rome, via New York.
They are attended by priest.
ONE of the chosen freeholders of Hobo
ken, N. j., weighs 465 pounds, and is con-
sidered man of some weight in the COM
munity.
AN entertaining essay in newspaperdom
is "The Young Paper" which is written.
put In type and printed wholly by Frank
II. Burt, of Northampton, Mass, boy six
years old, and son of Henry NJ. Burt, pub
Usher of the Ns,o England Homestead.
In Detroit, the. policemen carry about
with them poisoned meat, to kill the unli-
censed dogs. Considerations of public
safety compel them to watch the doomed
animal, and, unless he devours the morsel
entirely. to pick 1t up and carry 1t off in
their pocket.
GEN. iSIR ARCHDALE WILSON lately
stated in dinner in London that the heavi-
est English guns weigh eighteen tons,
French nineteen and half, and American
twenty-one tons; and that the relative PEN
etrating power of each might be repre-
sented by the numbers-English, l34;
French, 81; American, ~.
WORKOUT files, when re-cut, are tender,
apt to break, quickly spoiled, and altogeth-
or Improbable. Yet they make excellent
turning tools, chisels and scrapers. The
teeth should first be ground smooth and
then the file should be heated and forged
into the required shape. Dies for screw
cutting punches, cold chisels, keys, &c,
can then be manufactured at little cost.
STATE NEWS.
A MAN named John Wheatrow, teams
ter we'll known In our city, says the Mans
field Herald, committed suicide, on last
Sunday morning, under the following cir
cumstances: He called at the house of his
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Bsidle, living in the
northern part fthe eity,on Saturday night,
and requested 20 stay all night there, al
though his own house was next door. At
three o'clock in the morning, he awaken
ed his daughter, and telling her he would
never see her again, bid her goodbye
She. thinking he was only joking, paid no
attention to the matter, but went to sleep
again. After leaving this house, and fail
ing to get In ais own house, as all were
asleep, he proceeded to the well, took the
rope OF the windlass, and going to his sta
BILE, fastened It to the rafters, dropping it
through the hole through which hay is
thrown down from the NOW. Here he
hung himself, hanging Immediately over
the manger, from which he had loosened
horse which had been tied there. After
Jumping Of the support, he could have cas-
lily saved himself had he been so disposed.
His son, coming out to feed the horses
about six O'Clock, discovered his father
hanging cold and dead.
THERE has been considerable mystery
attached to a young man who was taken up
in this city acouple of weeks since, crazed
and very noisy. and confined in our county
jail, says the Rtcasond Shield and Bonner =
From the amount of money found in his
valise, aud bloody handkerchief and other
apparel, 1t was surmised that some fouI
deed had been committed, which had so
wrought upon his mind that he had become
crazed. Persons were written to in the vi
ciaity from which he came in Massachu-
setts. aud from letter before us, we get
the following facts 1t appears short time
since he obtained the money found in his
valise, by forging his uucle's name to stock
transfers. His name is Bell, an unmarried
man, and lived with his uncle, an aged man.
and quite wealthy-was never crazed he.
fore, but has always acted very singular.
and was considered somewhat fast The
stock that he stole was $4,000 Fitcbburo
r. r. The affair was kept quiet as "fam-
ily matter" but put in the hands OF Mr..
Haywood to look up, who had not been
able to trace him up to the time he was
confined In our jail. He was taken back
few days since By persons sent after him.
sheriff Fair, who has had opportunities of
testing his sanity, has no do ubt of his be-
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