The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-03-19

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the butter metropolis oflho United
States II fsfnishsd htsflY ikfs-
million pounds last year.
The COMMITTEES to locate the
Ohio State Fair will report tho ID.
cation selected 10 the Board or Tbs
18th inst. The time has already
been Axed 70 begin September 2ISt
and continue ave days.
B4rnum's Museum, In New
York city, was destroyed by irs
on the night Of the 3D. inst. Loes
100000 All the larger animals
belonging to Van Amburgh's me-
pagetie perished in the eomaagras
ton.
Tue latest acoouuis from The
seat Of war on the Parana repre-.
sent that the Paraguayan dictator,
Lopez, had gained fresh and I'M
Portant advantages over The Bra
sillians.
A.
In Nashua, New Hampshire,
there has been invented a small
machibe Which, worked by an ex-
pert, will shear q sheep in thres
minutes.
-Four members Of the Kentucky
delegation TO the National Demo-
cratic Convention hold commits
sionS in the rebel army, and one Of
them was member OF the Confed-
crate Congress.
The rsceipts from internal taxa
tion for three months OF the our-
rent fiscal year were more thar
forty six millions less than for tho
corresponding period Of the prece-
ding year.
The bill abolishing the ofIico Of
Commissioner Of Statistics, which
has been for somc time pending in
the Legislature, finally passed on
the 1ltb. 1t provides for a Bu-
reau Of Statistics in the Office Of the
Secretary of State.
The statement Of the public debt
TO tho lst of March, gives S2,5l9,-
829, ,622 SO as the net amount, less
cash in tho Treasury-being a
decrease since the 1st Of February
of 81, ,4s5, ,s51.
In executive session of the Sen.
ate it was decided not to act upon
any important nominations pend
ing the impeachment trial. Tho
nomination OF s. S. Cox for Minis
ter tc Austria was postponed.
In the Maryland Legislature;
General George R. Vickers, Of
Kent County, was chosen United
States Senator, receiving 60 votes
against Al for Philip f. Thomas,
and 20 for Mr.. Earl.
A Bill Incorporating an airline
railroad from Washington 10 New
York, running through trains IN
seven hours, will be Introduced in
Congress shortly.
Seventeen illegal distilleries
were detected and captured by tho
government in Lincoln County,
Tennessee, during tho month of
February, and it is believed tha.
there are fifty other establishments
of the kind still in operation in
that county.
Joseph Smiths widow has re-.
ceived, by q revelation from the
soul Of her departed husband, 6
revised edition ofthe Mormon Bible,
and it has jast been published al
Plano, Illinois.
A man in Auburn, Maine, has put
two hundred hens into hot house,
and tho unsuspecting fowls, delUd-
ed into the belief that it was
warm weather and the season for
business, literally overflow with
eggs.
An Indian canoe from Alaska,
made Of the hide of sea-lion, has
been deposited in the Smithsonian
Museum, Washington. It is about
twenty feet long, and intended to
be used by only one man.
The bill declaring that a majori-
ty of votes cast shall be sufficient
to ratify the constitutions of recon-
structed States, has become q law
by the failure of the President to
veto it within the ten days allowed
him for its consideration.
Rats, tits said, can not live in
Alaska, because their holes freeze
up as fast as the rats dig them.
Naturally, the rats get discouraged.
At ST. Thomas the earthquakes
turn their hoies wrong side out for
ty-three times a minute. This
surprises the rats, and they lcave
on the first steamer.
If fruit and vegetables could bo
transported North quick enough;
market gardening in Florida would
be good business. Green peas,
radishes, lettuce, etc, can be had
in abundance, even in mid-winter.
Strawb berries ripen in February;
ard continto to produce fruit un-
ii! June, at which time peaches
are ready for market.
There is ayoung man in Circle
vile who will never do so any
more. He was ont skating with
some ladies, and stole up behind
them with a revolver, which he
fred go hear them squeal." Tho
hall antarad hia le0 and ha has