Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-05
IFos RErREsENTATIyE IN CONGRESS. ,
Seventh Congressional Districto
JOHN H. THOMAS, Of Clarke. II

GENERAL NEWS

81 y aoi7 as''s GENERAL NEWS
si siGoLD closed in New York. yesterday at
1461k. sass s.. - s,aas i.ss i,essa,
"A TuNNEI,to unite Scotland and ireland,
has recently been suggested by an En-
gIfsh engineer. This under-sea passage
would run from the coast of Antrim, Ire
land, to Leaks Point, in the Null Of Cam
tyre, a iengt til of fourteen and a halfmiles
1t is estimated that 1t would cost $15, ,75O,-
90. r-.s.., ..r,.5.-ts ~ .,s,sa,H fak
aTHE Deseret Nesos of the 18th says that
625 Mormon emigrants from Scandinavia,
and 249 from the British Islands, cleared
from Liverpool on the ship Emerald Is
land, June goth. On the oath of the same
month the ship Constitution cleared with
457 of the same sect, of whom 90 were from
Switzerland and Germany. These are in
addition to the 500 who have already land
ed here from the Minnesota, and the 700 by
the John Bright. KAN T. ofiz.2 ~ ga
A PARTY of fifty-five Canadian volun-
teers for the Papal army recently passed
through Paris on their way to Marseilles,
to embark for Civita Vecchia. The UniUers
states that they had with them negro,
newly converted to Catholicism, and who,
for this reason, has been disiDherited by
his family. He is going to Rome to COM
plete his theological studies and prepare
for the priesthood. These volunteers sub
seribed to pay for his travelling expenses.
THE Peoria (Ill.) Transcript tells the fol-
lowing: A gentleman who went into the
bath rooms few days since to enjoy the
luxury of a sulphur bath, fell asleep while
he was lying in the water. He remained
there for two hours and half, when the
keeper, fearing something wrong, broke
the door open and found him quietly
snoozng, his nose just out of the water, his
head apparently having been slowly slip
ping down into the tub.
A NEW city, called Pleasantyille. is
springing up in the Pennsylvania oil re-
gion,5 Three years ago it was the halfway
station between Titusville and Pithole.L
Now, according to the TitusUitte Herald,
new buildings are going up, new wells are
opened every week, and almost every
branch Of trade in represented. Duringthe
last, thirty days twenty-four leases have
been executed for the erection of new
stores. Already there are four machine
shops and five blacksmith and wagon
shops. Grocery, dry goods and clothing
stores. ice-cream saloons and eating houses
seem plentiful enough for any emergency.
years for the means of rendering fabrics
waterproof, while at the same time they
allow the tree passage of air or moisture
The great objection to the use of rubber
goods as clothing for any part Of the body
lies in the entire arrest of the insensible
perspiration, and the consequent injuries
resulting therefrom. A German trade COM
mission has recently reported of the water
proof process of Herr Sroka, as applied to
leather and cloth, that the texture and ex-
ternal appearance are not altered in the
slightest degree, and that while allowing
the passage of air and vapor, water was
kept out after days of exposure.
ENdLAND is trayersed In every direction
with innumerable railroads. On December
81, 1866 there were in England and Wales
2S3 railway companies whose lines were
open for traffic, with a total mileage of
s79l, of which 16 spmpsnies alone owned.
leased or worked s4s1 miles. Z In Scotland,
atthe same same neriod there were 3I comma.
nies.,u;tb aa4d. miles of ,ai,,va,, ,,,Ns,, f,r
traffic; and in Ireland there were 80 COM
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