Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-27
New. of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS


GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
14014.
TIE manufacture of buttons from vege-
table ivory is carried on extensively In
Springfield, Mass. There are four factories
manufacturing them, and they employ
about two hundred persons.
The Hartford Post says some genius has
solved the problem, What is to be done
with hoop skirts that have outlived their
usefulness as articles of wearing apparel ?
\ He hangs them up in his corn patches as
scarecrows, and they are said to be effect
ual.
CHARLES D. FULLER, of Hartford, Connec-
ticut, confined in the State Prison on
charge of having stolen $4,000 of Govern
ment bonds, has been pardoned by unani-
nous vote of the State Legislature direct
ing his release.
The Syracuse Journal says that it is stated
that the grand jury of Albany county, at
the last session of the Court, indicted Alex
ander Frear, member of Assembly from
New York, for bribery, in attempting to
induce members to vote in certain way
on railroad bills.
The new mode of labelling the streets of
New Orleans by means of glass signs,
which by simple and ingenious contri-
vance are made to slide into the grooves of
she street corner lamps, is progressing rap
idly, and it will not be long before the
streets of the entire city shall have been
thus designated.
AN Indiana burglar, after securing
good amountof silver plate, forwarded let
ter of good advice to his victim, in which he
said "Allow me to respectfully suggest
to you in future, you will content yourself
with cheap spoons, and spend your surplus
cash in the cause of humanity and of
Christ"
THE Synod of the Canada Presbyterian
Church, at its session in Montreal, on the
18th, reafirmed, in opposition to the petit
tion of a number of ministers, its adhe-
renee to that clause of the Westminster
Confession which prohibits marriage with
the sister of a deceased wife.
operation from Sacramento city to Reno
Station, near Virginia city-one hundred
and fifty miles. About the first of July
the cars will be running to the Big Bend
of the Truckee river, in Nevada, and one
hundred and eighty-seve. miles east from
Sacramento city.
On the 25th ult., there died at the village
of Troutbeck, Windermere, England, in
her one hundred and fifth year. Margaret
Longmire, better known as Auld Peggy.
She was born on. the 18th of April, 1884;
lived all her life in the neighborhood, and
the register of her baptism in Windermere
parish church confirms the report as to her
age. 5T
The Fifth District Court at New Orleans
has before it a case where Mr.. Hastings.
druggist, is sued for $35,0OO for having put
up a prescription not in accordance with
written directions. 1t is asserted that the
lady patient who took the prescription
died from the effects of the wrong COM
pound. She had been prostrated by yellow
fever, and was at the time recovering.
DURING the late famine in Eastern Prus-
sia the Ottoman Minister at the court of
Berlin, Aristarchy Bey, contributed con-
siderable sums to the ladies' Benevolent
Society in the name of the Sultan, for the
purpose of aiding the sufferers. The Queen,
who presides. wrote to the Sultan, thank
ing him, to which he replied in an auto
graph letter, which has been deposited
among the archives as being the first COM
Queen of Prussia.
STATE NEWS.
A FATAL accident occurred at Napoleon
on last Thursday night resulting in the
death of Peter Kaufman, a Swiss, aged
about fifty, who had been residing in that
place for number of years. In the after
noon he had been indulging somewhat too
freely In his cups, and at night retired to
his room in the hotel as usual. The land
lady during the day had taken out the win
dow. Under the window was the roof of a
porch. Kaufman after going to this room
climbed out on this roof and fell, fractur-
ing his skull. When found he was still
able to speak, but died in about an hour and
half.
CHARLES STARR, boy aged 16 years,
whose parents reside on Underwood street,
says the Zanesuille Signal of the 25th, came
to his death, yesterday afternoon,by drown
ing in Licking creek while bathing. No
person was present at the time, and the
first discovery of the sad occurrence re-
suited from the finding of bis clothes on
the bank, when search was made and his
body found in the creek. Young Starr was
the only child of his parents, upon whom
his lamentable death bears heavily. They
have the sympathies of the entire commu-
nifty. He was an estimable boy, his repu-
tation being excellent, and he was beloved
by large circle of friends and acouaint-
ances. The coroner's jury returned ver-
dict of accidental drowning while bathing.
WE find the following in the Wauerly
Democrat of last week:
..On last Thursday afternoon our citizens
were startled by the report that two young
girls, daughters of Mr.. A. Heibel, of this
place, were drowned in the lock, near the
distillery. A large crowd soon collected
at the spot. The water was Immediately
drawn from the lock, which at the time of
ne accident was full, and after short time
the bodies were found. Every effort was
made to resuscitate them, but the great
length of time they were under water pre-
cluded all possibility of restoring them to
life. No one witnessed the accident except
a younger brother, who was too badly
frightened to give the alarm, until he had
reached home, distance of quarter of
mile. How the accident occurred is lot
definitely known, but it is supposed that
they were playing on the edge of the lock
when one Of. them fell in, dragging the