Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-24

GENERAL NEWS.

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GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
14O7SI k1O Il lAsK4 = AO ~
WE have ear gloves here. but in Paris
they have ladies' nose protectors, lined
with fur.
The Commissioner of Agriculture esti-
mates the corn crop of 1867 at 775,s20, 900
bushels, and the cotton crop at 2,34o,OOO
bales. h6 HA 8 E
QHE cattle plague has suddenly appeared
in twenty-five villages of Upper Silesia,
Prussia.
NEARLY four hundred men have recently
been discharged from Kittery Navy Yard
In Maine.
A aBnAR weighing three hundred and
seventy -one pounds was sold in the Bangor
(Me.) market on Thursday at sixteen cents
per pound. 80 -.s.z.
TIE old saIutati6n taught by French
readers, Comment vous portez-vous p"
has given way in Paris to the shorter
"Comment alez-vous ?" as in this coun-
try we now say show are you ?n for
" How do YOU do p" 10 ossi,siiaas oi1sqassat
EUGENE CAssERLY's first dispatch from
San Francisco, after the recent election,
was this, to his mother in Brooklyn My
dear mother: Your son has been chosen a
United States Senator for the State of Cali
fornia.''
FROM Salt Lake papers we learn that the
whole country has been deluged with rain
storms unparalleled in its history. Wheat
sown on the Doth of September was ten
inches IN height on the oath ult.
The Tuskegee (Alabama) Neaos says that
many valuable citizens of Ohio" have re-
Gently purchased lands for occupation and
residence near that place, and that others
will soon follow. NS
The average of the tobacco crop in Hat
field. Massac husetts, last year.. is 1,799
pounds to the acre.. The greatest crop
ever raised in that town was g. 800 pounds
to the acre. In North Hadley. the farmers
have been selling for twenty five cents per
pound. q zE ttksk 81 &BS
The greatest activity now exists in both
political parties in New Hampshire, and
eminen. speakers on both sides are soon to
take the stump. The Democrats began
the campaign by mass meeting, at which
Mr.. Pillsbury, of Maine, made a speech.
JOHN w. HENLY was murdered at Demo-
polls, Ala, on Saturday, by DR.. James R.
Jones, formerly member of the Legisla-
ture from Marengo county. The murderer
fled. Mr.. HeniyFnad been lately admittedto
the barat Demopolis. Z L S2&y
THE Columbus (Miss.) Inde1 says that the
negroes year ago had to be 1abored with
in order to induce them to work. Now, it
says, ''they are asking for employment in
numbers" {" displaying unusual uneasiness in
the matter. 10 70 3&SS
CHARLES A. HAwLEY, of Collinsville
Ct, died on Sunday night from too free
use of chloroform for relieving a toothache'
Hewas found dead in bed. with a handker-
chief saturated with the fluid pressed to his
nostriis' 80 2N.
A CoMMUNIcATIoN from Naples states
that the coral merchants of Tore del Greco
who. when the eruption Of Mount Vesuvius
commenced, had removed the greater por.
tion of their merchandise, have now begur
to bring it back, all danger being consid
cred at an end.
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STATE NEWS.
AN attempt was recently made, by bur
glars, to enter the Office of the Treasurer o
Pauiding county, but the burglars wer,
defeated in the attempt by young mar
who slept in the Office. He fired twice a
them, when they decamped, leaving be
hind them some tools which they had takel
from mill near by ,s
CLEVELAND is flooded with a mos
plausible counterfeit bank note, two dol
lar National bill on the National Unjo
Bank at Kinderhook, New York. At
first glance this is one of the most decep
tive of all the various counterfeits of ou
currency. On close examination tn
words 'National Union Bank" look dir
and unnatural, while in the vignette on tn
left hand corner OF the bill the engravin
is coarse and rough. s9sa - qoaaas's o'H
A COUPLE of families in this, State wer
pretty severely poisoned few days ag.
through joint participation in ia cake, i
the making of which portion of arseni
was accidentally employed, with porto
of cream of tartar, and mistaken for the lai
ter article. This is only another of th
thousand practical warnings which peopl
have had, not under any circumstances,
allow this species of poison to have hous,
room, nor to trust to memory for safet
h
A FEW days ago, while our friend Jaco
Pimm was showing some gentleme
through his steam Touring mill, in til
place, he inadvertently allowed his beal
to come in contact with a swiftly reyolvir
vertical shaft connected with the smu
machine. The shaft being small, and. ha'
ing been newly painted, the flowing beal
of our friend was drawn Immediate
around it, and but for the fortunate IN
that ready brace was found for his hand
there is no telling what the result won
have been. As it was, large portion
beard on the side caught was torn out
the roots. So says the Logan Gazette.
ABOUT 9 20 this morning, says the Gle,
land Plain Dealer, of Monday, an unknoy
woman, while walking upon the railro
track, west of the Atlantic & Great We
ernadepot, was Instantly killed by the e
gine of the accommodation train from I
ledo. 1t appears that the through freig
train from this city to Toledo had il
started from the depot and was ascendil
the grade upon the same track that t
woman was walking, and she. in order
get out of the way, stepped upon the 9th
track, not observing the incoming passe
ger train, when she was Immediately stru
by the engine and thrown from the trac