Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-04-18
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS

81 News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.
Coin closed in New York yesterday at
1857.
THE fire department of Mobile celebrated
its thirtieth anniversary on Thursday, by a
public parade.
The three craters of Mount Vesuvius are
now in active eruption. Two of these are
of recent formation.
YALE has challenged Harvard to six
Dared boat race at Worcester, July "A. The
challenge will be accepted.
Rev. JOIN HEALEY BRoMBY, vicar of
Holy Trinity Church, in Hull, England,
died recently, after vicariate OF SO years.
GEORGE BENSON died recently in Som
erset county, Maryland, from eating chick
en- which had died of the disease known as
s'chicken cholera"
The new railroad drawbridge at Rouse's
Point, Vt, is now finished. 1t has turn
table 2OS feet in length. The whole struc-
ture cost $4,000.
PEYToN RANDOLPH FREEMAN, last sur
viving graduate of the class of 1896 of
Dartmouth College, died at Hanover, N. H.
last Friday, aged SO.
READINGS for the people are now estab-
lished in New York. The admission is
only 10 cents, and the programme includes
music as well as ecitations.
JOHN MAGEE, a member of the New
York Constitutional Convention, died on
the 9th instant, leaving a fortune estimated
at s1200O,O00. He began life poor.
A eUAcK doctor recently rode through
the streets of Golconda, ILL.,, blowing long
tin horn, while an associate followed play
ing on the banjo and singing comic songs.
The number of cent cigars consumed
in France during the past year, amounted,
it is said, to 100000. The amount of
money thus smoked away is something to
reflect upon.
Fort WHIPPLE is the only complete work
in the line OF Notifications surrounding
WashiLgto three years ago. 1t shelters
small garrison posted to guard the stores Of
ammunition.
A MAN in Sussex county, N. j., engaged
in burning brush. recently left the fire for
a few minutes, when his little daughter, 8
years old, fell in to the flames and was
burned to death.
A FEW days since in New Orleans. Mr..
Yarmouth was sleeping, when little child
tickled the soles OF his feet. He gave a
sudden kick, which threw the child from
the bed and caused its death.
SIR JAMES SIMPSON, Professor Christison,
Sir Alexander Grant and Mr.. j. D. Forbes
are the chief competitors for the succession
to Sir David Brewster in the Presidency of
the University of Edinburgh.
AN old lady, OF Randolph county, Mo-,
has been exhibiting patchwork cotton
quilt, composed of seven thousand five
hundred different pieces, all very neatly
stitched and all done by hand.
MISS LUCY STONE addressed the Massa-
chusetts House Judiciary committee, in be-
half of the Woman's Rights Association.
She was followed by Mrs. p. A. Haraford
and the Rev. Mrs. Olympia Brown.
A BOY, only eight years old. fell off a rail-
road train at Waukegan, ILL.,, recently, and
had the presence of mind to lie still in the
middle of the track, so that all the cars
passed over him without doing him injury.
GALIGNAN1's Messenger prints notice of
the birth of son to John Smith, in Paris,
with the request that New York aud Chi
cago papers copy. A Boston paper thinks
the announcement will be news to thou
aQnds