Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-25

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.fIss 3 eENRHAt SEws. kti
E. L. DAvExroRr. the tragedian, Is going
to California.
LuccA, the prima donna, has captivated
st. Pstersb1rg. ESSx1sE
aTHE Scalpiny Knife" is newspaper
published In Nevada.
THE expenses of the Virginia Convention
~ Hob 81 Mae$ boz 81 ,oS .s0E
SEVERAL policemen of Patterson, N. j.,
are charged with theft.
w4p turkeys aea yenison. are cheaper
than beef In Pensacola.
THE old sloop of war John Adams is be-
ing broken up at Fair Haven, Ct.
THERE are twenty-five institutions for
othe deaf and. dumb in the United States.
AsNAkE three feet long was found on
the sidewalk in Quincy, Ill, few days
ago.
80 SxvxN Thousand camelta trees were, used
to decorate the rooms at q recent ball In
Paris.
GEN. GRAST's father is to write sketches
of the Generals boyhood for the New York
sLeders wz1ra gtka n
TxN thousand francs were given recent
ly for . piece of Gobelin tapestry in
France. .ss5 - ~
IT is reported that q lady has been killed
in Lima, Peru, by the exhalation of a pol
soned letter. -zssss
ROGER CoLDERY, 20 years of age, lost his
way on Monday, near Worcester, Mass,
and fell into pond. He crawled out and
tperished with cold. :
wArERrowN, N. Y. held an election on
Wednesday, aud the Democrats were. sue
cessful for the first time in fifteen years. A
full vote was polled.
The poor house in Brunswick, Me-, was
sssyeds from being consumed by fire last
Saturday by the vigorous application of
snow by the citizens.
An extraordinary phenomenon occurred
at Hobarttown, Tasmania, last December,
in the shape Of asnow storm in the middle
of . tropical summer.
? THE Pope has made appointments to
eight new Episcopal Dioceses and four new
AROSb>itO vtOoAiobCo VA tbO NoohOAAS
Church in this country.
ENGLISH ladies wish to introduce uni
form for the various grades of female SER
,vants, who are now liable to be mistaken
on the stfeeks for their mistresses. 7 II
AN actor in Paris who had lost his reason
recently died In an insane asylum. A few
minutes before his death he raised himself
In bed and asked: SIS the last act on?"
A YOUNG lady somnambulist in St. Louis
recently atsemptsd to enact in her sleep the
tragedy Of novel she had read in her
waking hours, by stabbing her sister with
q table knife. sssaA ~ 2 aEsysa sfA
GEN. CHAMBERS, of Louisville, had a
-dsazhterbofn to him on his seventy -fourth
birth day, and the members of the bar cx-
pressed their admiration by presenting her
with ssiIver cup. &fE IL
STATE NEWS
-lCHrrLIcoTHE is beginning to put on me-
tropolitan airs. The police came out in
uniform, last week. LA
The Second National Bank of Dayton,
Ohio, has ceased to become depository of
public moneys and financial agent OF the
Gs.s AstSS
hEY.-yosFrHy hFlSHARr' lH1s Catholic, at
tempted to get on passing freight train at
Upper 6andusky, on Saturday morning,
ana ,eli under the cars ana was instantly
killed .Frsa a sig
The first printing press In Ohio, the
Marietta Register says, was set up in Gin
-
cinnatti, In l793; the first in Marietta, was
set up in November, 1901, by Elijah Back
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The Hooking Sentinel says: There seems
to be vigilance committee in Marion
township: We learn that one day last week
some twenty citizens or that township
gathered at the house of q man named
Kull, seized him and took him to q school
house some distance OF, and threatened
him with : coat OF tar and feathers unless
he would make certain promises. Kull. it
s5iGale1o1, il IN The habit qof Amusing his
= ~, Z. which sv,as the ca,,se of tie ont
bfeak. He srepented, promised to do bet
:. Ter .and.vas released. z.rai.4 4.so i. ussf
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Humphrey-a one-armed soldier-liying
about thfee miles south of Belmont, saws
the ST., 0Rais,yiae aasette, while in fit. her
husband being absent and her children at
f,schooA fs}l iaio TN fire and was burned to
death. In her struggles she had thrown
= sflre allover che room, but fortunately Moth
i6ga Was burned except part OF one Of the
rockers Of the, cradle in which her babe