Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-03


at Oteokee, on Saturday, July istn, ~ .en
O'Clock, A. M, and place In nomination
candidates for county offices, and also 70
select delegates to the Congressional Con-
vention, TO be held at Napoleon on Thurs
day. July 25. -
tiaiey JAMES K. NEWCOMER,
Sdtis7t3i Chm of Committee.
aaa News of the Day.
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-ssaffag GENERAL NEWS (
Cob closed in New York yesterday at
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Mn. BuRrrNeAME says the Chinese have
more books. encyclopedias, pamphiets,
magazines, etc. than any other people.
Their principal encyclopedia embraces
Eve thousand volumes. Able Hue, who
travelled through China some years ago,
says primary education Is universally dif-
fused in China. =
LIN Baltimore there are now In operation
nine colored schools, having about HOO
scholars on the rolls, with an average at
tendance of 800, and employing 2l teach.
ers. The salaries of the teachers amount
to about $4,000 per year, and the rents OF
buildings to $2,364- q 5aI .
HowE WHEKIER, of Calais, Vermont, was
ninety years old last December, and his
wife will be ninety next month, and they
have lived together seventy-one years.
They have eight living children, the Oldest
aged seventy years, and the youngest forty
two; forty-two grandchildren and forty-
five great-grand- children, making re-
markable family. ~. ~ .,...,.,.,,.,,,.q
THE crops throughout the whole of Kan
sas are reported TO be the best ever known
in the State, the corn and wheat crops
being particularly fine. The farmers are
in good spirits, and expect to complete their
wheat harvest ty the end of the present
week. It is thought that the crons will
average thirty bushels to the acre through
out the State. - = 50
The Austrian correspondence of Vienna
announces that the HaDsburg family have
sent services of plate to the value of $4,000
forms to the two advocates who defended
the Emperor Maximilian, and refused all
recompense in money. At the same tune
his late Maiesty's confessor was presented
with cross Of great price.
A RICH farmer Of Calais, Maine, aged
sixty-five, recently married second wife
who is only nineteen years of age. A
daughter by his first wife is forty years old,
and her daughter, aged twenty, is about to
be married. Thus there is a child who is
twenty-one years older than her mother,
and a grandmother who is q year younger
than her granddaughter. .s}esf i,fn
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.5a0t STATE NEWS. 81 u iG1Hs5
On the 24th ult, says the Mans6sld Her.
aid, as Mr.. Robert Houston, of OliyesbHrg,
this county, had mounted his horse, for the
purpose of taking aIride on some business
matter, the horse scared at something and
threw Mr.. II. He is since lying in a very
precarious condition, in consequence of
three broken ribs, besides being otherwise
,adly injured. Up to the 18th ult., his lie
was despaired of. -uoissimb
The Buerus Journal says: On Sunday
evening, w. p. Warden, ESQ.,, of North
Robinson, while attempting to get on the
freight train, moving at the rate Of twelve
or fourteen miles an hour, was thrown un-
der the hind car, which passed over his
left leg. DIR. A. E. Jenner, of Crestline,
was sent for, and found the leg SO severely
crushed as to render amputation necessary
and the leg was taken off by DR.. J, just be-
low the knee, in very skillful manner. At
latest accounts, Mr.. Warden had somewhat
rallied from the shock and was doing fa-
vorably. We sincerely symathizs with him
in his terrible misfortune.
On Monday night last, says the Plymouth
Aduertiser, an entrance to the Express Of
fee, at This place, was effected by burglars,
and an onslaught made upon a safe in the
room. "A hole was made through the iron
door with chisel, and the vacuum heavi-
ly charged with powder, fuse inserted,
and the safe blown. The lock and door
lining were entirely blown of, and way
ut once opened to the inner safe. The
burglars, however, got nothing for their
trouble, except some papers belonging to
Mr.. s. NJ. Robinson, of no value to any but
himself. The valuables Of the Office were
In burglar-proof safe, in the back room.
On this they tried their hands, but gave up
in despair, or were alarmed and left. 1t
appears that they also made an effort to eff
feet an entrance into the clothing store of
Solomon Spear, but shot from the clerk
put them to flight. Some meat and boz
logna were taken from the meat shop of
Israel Bachrach. Part of the tools used In
effecting an entrance to the safe, were
taken from the marble shop of Mr.. B. Vim
SON.. A pick was obtained by breaking in
to the hand car house, at the station. No
clue to the perpetrators.
The Mansfield Herald says that on We'd
nesday afternoon telegraphic dispatch
was placed under the door of the house of
Mr.. y. B. Mercer, resident of that city,
announcing that brother of Mrs. Mercer,
who resides In Washington county, Pa.
had been killed, and that her presence was
desired at the funeral. On her arrival at
the home of her brother, she found him
hale and hearty. Thinking that she had
been deluded for the purpose of robbery,
she telegraphed to Major Slutz to send a
policeman to watch the house until her re-
turn, which was accordingly done. How
ever, on her return, she discovered that
the upper rooms of the house had been en-
tered, and $175 in gold, and greenbacks to
the amount of $500 or $500 had been taken.
Suspicion fell on a servant girl of bad
character, living in the house, and on being
threatened with arrest, confessed that the
dispatch was written by "her man." liv-
ing in Chicago, and that after the depart
ure of Mrs. Mercer he had obtained an en-
trance in the house and secured tho money.
She acknowledged that the gold was in her