Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-04-15
News of the Day

LAKE CHAMPLAIN is still covered with ice.
FIFTY thousand photographs are sold
daily in New York city. 7rrsd3
COOP mutton is sold in Melbourne, Aus
tralia, at two cents pound.
A PERFECT FILE of the London Times for
the year 1894 is owned in Brooklyn. 2'1
The fare from Chicago to Boston has
been reduced to $23, to New York $50.
A WATERFOWL lad recently shot one of
his schoolmates for ''tattling" to the teach
er. r.s5 % 80 &s5fk zaG
A SUB MARINE diver in Illinois estimates
that he has spent three years of his life un-
der water.
NJ. SEIZURE, Professor at Ghent, has just
exhumed the ''hour-book" of the Emperor
Charles V.
CHICAGO has cut st. Louis out of the
s.mountain- trade" :" which was worth eight
smillions last year. 81 s 3 = = :
AT the late election in Connecticut,
woman in Hartford carried her invalid hus-
band to the polls.
THE amount due to 103.696 depositors in
the Savings Banks of Boston and vicinity,
reaches S22, pa, $50. ~l-.
SIXTY thousand tons of pig iron are an
nually produced within three miles of Co.
slumbia, Lancaster county.
MAPLEsoN's opera troupe st London con-
tains Nilsson, Kellogg and Titiens, and Gye
has Patti, Lucca and Mario.
q DURING the thunder storm Of April 1st,
several persons in the West were killed by
the lightning while plowing.
The mountains, near Chattanooga. are
swarming with deer. Four sportsmen kill
ed eleven in three days hunt.
CELEsTE has returned from Australia to
London, and will bid farewell to the stage,
''under the patronage of the Duke of Edin-
,burgh." qua ,gsH .f,-, a.st-.-e,- OFT
TEE s.Grand Cyclops" officially repudi-
ates the blood-thirsty placards and procla-
nations purporting to proceed from the
.Ku-Klux. N 3a 4@a
THE ceiling of the new Tammany Hall Is
to be adorned by fine alIegorical work IL
Illustrating the rise and progress of Manhat-
tan Island.
2 Mrs. DANIEL CoCHRANE, of North Brook
field, Mass, recently gave birth to three
girls, aggregate weight, 2S pounds, and all
doing well. iIs g>s1Ai EIS
The last volume of the History of France,
ny thelate Eyre Evans Grove. editor of the
London DAILY Ne,os, has just been posthu-
mously published.
The editor of the Houston Telegraph an
nounces that she has no papers to loan; he
has no wish for company; and he answers
no questions OF any sort"
On the first of April, the first boat of the
new line of the Northwestern Transporta-
stion Company left Sioux City for Fort Ben
ton on the upper Missouri.
AT the funeral of Father Taafe, which
recently took place in Lawrence, Massa-
chusetts, eight hundred ladies wore black
dresses and white wells to their waists.
THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts de-
cides that policies of insurance on stocks
of intoxicating liquors kept for sale in vio-
lation of the Prohibitory law are void.
BISMARCK declines personally to confer
with the English Ambassador at Berlin,
but refers him to a subordinate, because
he is not accredited in ''first-class" man
ner.
Miss FANNY HAWKINS, aged twenty-five,
living near Mount Tabor Church, Anne
lArundle county, Maryland, on April 9Th.
was burned to death In the flames eonsum-
ing her fathers house.
A NEST of black snakes was discovered in
an old cellar at North Oxford, Mass, on
the 2iinst., and ninety-six of the, reptiles
were killed, whose aggregate measurement
was upwards of 400 feet in length.
s=THE bridge now being built across the
Mississippi at Quincy, Illinois, will be one
mile and four rods in length. 1t is stated
that it will be finished by September next,
and will cost one and quarter million
dollars. sai1as s-aagA
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