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

News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
1895.
In Germany, when paper publishes
anything witty, they kill the editor. Not
a single editor has been kill there for two
hundred years.
ACCOUNTS from the interior of Alabama
and Mississippi report serious damage to
plantations from the late rains. 1t is feared
general replan ting of the cotton will be
necessary.
Only one lady responded to the request
for signatures against Mr.. Gladstone's
Irish Church resolutions, and she, it Is as
serted, Is the wife of Liberal member of
Parliament.
"GREATER BRITAIN " Is the title ofa work
upon the United States, written and about
to be published by Mr.. Wentworth Dixie,
who accompanied Hepworth Dixon on his
American tour.
A MONSTER NEWT, commonly called
'.water dog" and % inches in length, has
been caught in the Susquehanns, at Har-
itSOutSs 1Hio cPSOiOS 40 cCAuVui iOdAo OtCI
seven inches in length.
A CHESTNUT tree on the grounds of the
Bethlehem Iron Works, measures nearly
twenty-nine feet in circumference. This
exceeds the tree in Kennett, Delaware coun-
ty. measuring twenty-five feet.
EDWIN JAMES, the noted English lawyer,
residing at Hudson City, N. J., has been
oeI,o n H.
his garden er. Mr.. James had interfered for
the protection of the mans wife.
The piers for the enlarged railroad
bridge across the Delaware, at Trenton,
now in course of construction, are built of
massive stone, from Prallsville. The ma
son work is said to be unequalled.
PEANUTS seem to be trivial article, but
In North Carolina, where they are chiefly
raised, they have almost taken the place of
cotton as the great staple, and bring their
scultivators annually 500 per acre.
A NEVADA widow was recently startled
by the return of her husband, just as she
was about to be married again. She had
erected tombstone, and planted flowers
uoon the supposed grave of her lost part
ner.
A NEW visiting card has been introduced.
It Is oval, with the border cut into twelve
points, bearing the numerals from l to IL,
to represent the hours of the day. The
visitor turns down the point indicating the
time of the call.
A PARIS paper. published for the benefit
of strangers in that city, announces to
Englishmen that Dickens play of
s'Through Fare" (No Thoroughfare) has
met with success in London, and describes
q billiard match as an athletic race.
The Cog proclamation recently issued by
the Mayor of New Jersey town, COM
msnces as follows: Whereas, Several dogs
supposed to have been mad. and most proba-
bly, has bitten several dogs in the town.
STATE NEWS.
THE Democratic Enquirer says there are
not houses enough in Macarthur.
PARTIES digging a well the other day at
Mansfield, struck a vein of coal at
depth of sixty feet.
On Saturday, young man named Ed
wards was tried, convicted and fined, at
Mt. Vernon, for writing obscenity OH the
walls leading to the new public hall.
DURING the past year, which was not fa-
vorably exceptional, the number of deaths
in GAINESVILLE and Putnam was but Ill
This in population of over 10000! But Is
cases of cholera have ever occurred there.
The coal deposits of Muskingum county
are estimated to amount to 359,7l2OOO
square yards, enough to supply the popu-
lation of Ohio with fuel, it is stated, for
two hundred and fifty years, at the same
rate of consumption it is used in England.
A DAY or two ago the furnace of An
drews &, Hitchcock, at Hubbard, six miles
from Youngstown, broke out just above
one of the tuyeres, letting the liquid metal
out, which burned one laborer to death al
most instantly, and another so that he diei
on Thursday from the effects of it, We
have not learned their names.
The Toledo Commercial says that Captain
Lester, of the barge Estabrook, on Thurs
day, brought to that city the largest salmon
that was ever seen or 'heern tell about.n
It weighed forty five pounds, and measured
three feet seven inches from nose to tip of
tail. 1t adds that this fresh water monster
was caught near Marine City, in Lake HUI
ron.
THE Shelby County Democrat Is sorry to
learn that an infant child of Mr.. Daniel
Dingman, near Sidney, was accidentally
burned to death, last week, by its clothing
taking fire while its mother went out of
the house for an armful of wood-the child
having crawled to the Fireplace during its
mothers absence. 1t lived but ten or twelve
hours after the accident.
The Jackson Herald of the 10Th of April
says, that on Friday morning the house
formerly occupied by Mr.. David Dove, was
burned down. The probability is the fire
originated from a pan of wood ashes ON the
back porch. The loss is probably $1,000
Also, the previous night, the house OF Mr..
Hugh Barnhill, few miles from town.
was destroyed by fire. The loss probably
$1,000.