Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-03
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GoLD closed in New York yesterday al
14Ols.
CHIcAeo has recently completed another
immense grain elevator, and now boasts OF
sixteen, with total capacity of over nine
million bushels 9
CATTLE from Texas, with horns so long
that they can scarcely pass the car door,
and hoofs corresponding, are at Cairo
awaiting shipment East
The place of Senator Fowler upon the
National Republican Committee has been
declared vacant, and filled by Hon. Thomas
G. Alvord, of New York.
REpoRrs come from Virginia that the
wheat crop of that State never looked more
promising than now. Similar accounts
come in from North Carolina.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG has dined at
buckingham Palace with the Duchess of
Somerset, and was escorted to the table by
the Duke of Newcastle. aefaS
OWING to some disclosures made in Paris
respecting lunatic asylums, a searching Of
ficial inquiry will be made, and the Em-
peror will probably visit the principal in
stitutions in person.
LARGE quantities of ice still remain
piled up along the shores of many of the
islands in Lake Superior, and at last ao-
counts there were immense fields of linear
the head of the lake.
GEN. MEADE has delighted the citizens at
Atlanta with magnificent party. The
c,rds were issued to both rebel" and
Yankee" and his apartments were
crowded with beautiful women and brave
men.
THE name of Mr.. Henry c. Carey has
been suggested in connection with the rep
resentation in Congress of the Second Dis
trict of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Carey, how
ever, declines to run for Congress under
any circumstances.
TEN young men graduated from the The
illogical departm ent of Yale College on the
21st. At the meeting of the alumni it was
ann ounced that about $4,000 had already
been collected for new building for the
divinity school.
In Taunton, Mass, recently, VIM. Quill
len, painter, slipped from roof and hung
by his hands from the caves, over forty
feet from the ground, and remained in that
position until plank run out from an attic
window furnished means of escape.
IA GEORGIA newspaper speaks of gen.
tleman in Bibb county, in that State, whose
3 wife has borne him twenty-five children,
all of whom are living with the parents
still, in perfect health. Another gentle
man in the same county has been twice
married, and has had twenty-one children;
while another, who has been married only
fifteen years, has twelve.
STATE NEWS.
Fishing at the Reservoir just now is said
to be fine. On Monday Messrs. Bell and
Parr caught between two and three hum
dred in less than four hours. So says the
Ne,oark Advocate.
THE st. Clairsuius Gazettee says: Mr..
Thos. Taylor, of Pultney township, this
county, on the 21st inst, shot an animal
which was between two and three feet in
length, and would probably weigh 20 to 25
pounds. 1t was of lead color, legs and
back striped with black. AS no animal of
the kind was ever before seen In this re-
gion, no one seems to know what it is.
TIE somerset Advocate says: The destruc-
tion of an infant by parties in Jacktown
was followed by the arrest OF newly mar
ried couple, who were placed under bonds
for their appearance at Court. 1t seems
the trouble arises from the birth of the
child only few months after the wedding.
This was surely not the child's fault, and
we think it ought to have escaped Lynch
law.
A SON of Mr.. Charles Stewart, about IL
years of age, who lives in the country,
south of Springfield, says the Advertiser,
was, on Thursday morning, hanging up a
shot-g gun in his fathers house, when it was
accidentally discharged, the load taking his
right arm off at the shoulder-joint. DIR. A.
Dunlap, of this city, was called and took
the arm out of the sockes. The arm was
badly mangled. and the blood was thrown
on the walls and ceiling. The boy is now
in critical condition, but hope is enter
tanned of his recovery.
On Wednesday night, 9th inst, at about
halt past nine o'clock, says the Sprinqfeld
Advertiser, DIR. A. NJ. Whitehead was called
to the residence of MIR. Digan, on West
Washington street, to attend Mrs. Digap,
who was alarmingly i'll. DIR. Owen was al
so called. We learn from DIR. Whitehead
that Mrs. Digan was found in a comatose
condition, and upon examination it was
ascertained that she had taken, about two
hours previous, two ounces of laudanum.
The drug had done its work in the mean
time so thoroughly that it was too late to
save her life, and she died about twenty
minutes past four o'clock this (Thursday)
morning. She was between thirty five
and forty years of age, and leaves family
of seven children. Her husband is a tailor
by trade, and is engaged at Messrs. Todd
20 Yandegrift's clothing store. He was
formerly employed at the gas works, and
q little moro than year since fell on the
ice, since which time he has been Obliged