Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-07
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS

GFNEKAL NEWo
GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
14o5S.
ALBoNI is in Paris. CO
A PARTISAN gardener has produced rose
bush with 1900 full roses.
ToRoNTois declared to be one of The dirti-
est cities in the world.
THIRTY car loads of live stock come east
ward over the Kansas Pacific Railway
daily.
SIXTEEN cars went from Atlanta to Mil
ledgevllle on Tuesday morning, to move
the furniture from the State Capitol at At
lanta. aeaseg NJ s2.s-
A-REcENr horse race in Russia, accord
ing to q local report, was 'won by the
priests horse, ridden by the sacristan."
WHEAT in southwestern Indiana is COM
ing under the sickle in larger quantity and
better quality than ever before.
A COUPLE in Chicago, aged respectively
q and 20 years, have been divorced, after a
married lifeof five summers! '
GOODWIN SMITH said at Oxford that he
thought the ballot necessaryto protect the
franchise of the poor.
THE Toronto City Council has been me-
morialized to grant aid to Miss Rye to
bring ont servant girls. 2faa sss
TIE Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad is progressing westward at the
rate OF half mile daily. - = -
A MAN is under arrest for bigamy in Gin
clnnati. who is proved to have married
eight wives.
The California Indians are rapidly be-
coming extinct, from the use of rum and
fro m disease. saiI 'lsa assazsfaes s-s's zg5
The summer in Iceland has begun
month earlier than usual, and European
tourists are governed accordingly. W
Or 200 Massachusetts, maidens, ''anxious
and. aimless," who went to Washington
Territory two years ago, all but three have
become mated. a5s1@
A GIRL, eleven years of age, attempted to
poison her mother, in Nashville, a few days
since, for refusing to give her dessert after
dinner n y
CAPT. T.%DoNALDsoN, charged wi tn shoot 3
ing the first mate of the steamer G reat Re-
public, has been committed for trial at st.
Louis on q charge of murder in the first
degree.
A RoPEwALK in Trenton, N. j., has just
turned out the longest wire rope ever made
in one piece. it is said. It is 300 feet in
length; its diameter is over ~ inches, and
its weightsom twenty tons.
The convicts in the Albany IN. W PEN
itentiary, last Sunday, feasted on straw
berries and sugar, the gift of 81. G. Dorsey
OF Pawtucket, r. L, who sent 500 to the
warden for the purpose.
AT recent shooting match. the Prince
of Wales scored eight pigeons. The high
est number scored was nine. 1t must be
some comfort to the loyal Englishman to
know that the Prince is at least moder-
ately good shot.
A .FEw. nights since, an old lady, who
had got upon the train for Chicago at Free
port, Ill, was observed suddenly to throw
up her arms, exclaiming, "I am wicked
witch. and am going to die !" She died
soon after in COMMISSIONS In her pocket
was found bottle labelled "poison."
IT lis stated that the girl who was re-
ported to have committed suicide from
love, in Newark, Nd, last week, died from
self-loye rather than from the love of
young man. She was in the habit of taking
arsenic to improve her complexion, and the
last dose brought death. 4 ss. : Is 80
WE are sure that the patrons of the
Chronicle will feel grateful for the follow
ing verbatim report of the speech OF Pres
ident GRANT to his Cabinet, March 9TH,
1859 ssGentlemen, hope you'll excuse me
for one hint preliminary--Do as much as
you can and say as dlittle."-Cfn. Chronicle.
Here's anotherspe that may be put
in the, same frame: sDon't you think
chicken stealing is wrongs'' said one thief
to another while they were robbing hen
roost. That's a great moral question:"
was the reply. Hand down another roos-
ter" .R .ss....
A COUNTRY delegate to the Black and Tan
Congressional Convention to- be held in
London on the 18th July wants ''thes vote
of this ere county castas aeunuch for SAM.
SHIBABARGERs''s4 b1s4 sssf75 ,rsGsiE sfG. =
FoRNEY wants negro cadets entered at
West Point, ~ The D, D. has already, grad