Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-13
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GENERAL NFwS

A NEW State Penitentiary is proposed in
California EtrsEs yt
THERE is excellent sleighing in the vi
cinity of Boston.
THE Pope has distributed $4,000 medals
among the soldiers who fought at Mon
tana.
! Miss JEENNIE BUsK has achieved a suct
5 cess at the Concordia Opera House in Bal
timore. sA eas
! THE Boston Transcript says that Goldwin
Smith has fully determined to make Amer
lea his home. ID
ArFArAL fever, which puzzles the physi-
clans, is reported to be prevailing in VIM
necone, Wisconsin.
THE paper mill of S. G. Parker 6 Co., at
/ fyGreenwicb, N. Y, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday night last. Loss $4,000.
A VERMONT horse thief, recently arrest
ed, confesses having stolen and sold forty
horses since last July.
AGANG of thieves, some of whom are bus
ten years old, has been broken up in San
i, Francisco. rs
THERE has been an increase of 365 Con-
KTcSdtiDudt OiiuTCucS anu tC.NOO
gationalists during the last twenty years.
Governor of Maine thinks taxing
Government bonds may be equitable,
while ex- Governor Hawley, of Connects
cut, thinks it would be violating national
faith. .~e-s-sss r-s4s
Iris said that the Austrian Government
i isusing its influence to induce the Cab
met of the Tuilieries to recognize Senor
Juarez as President of the Republic OF
Mexico.
A FEMALE Caspar Hauser is said to have
been discovered on coal barge in the
Sine, in France. Tne girl, who is ofa high
family, has been kept hidden in the hold Of
theLvessel-for six years.
In every well-written paragraph there is
the possibility o. an essay for every we'll.
written paragraph is SO condensed and con-
centratei, that it will bear great amount
OF dlution and yet retain its chief charac-
teristics7-N. r Commercial. : @Bsa
1T is understood that both Judge Curtis
q I'd Judge Abbott decline to be candidates
Ior the Chief Justieeship of Massachusetts,.
They are making four times the money by
their law practice that they would receive
insthat office from the State.
In Consequence of the recent disclosures
relative to the management of workhouses
in England. it is understood that a royal
commission will shortly be issued to in
quire generally into the management OF
workhouses throughout the county. - -
ONE hundred and sixteen million two
hundred and fifty thousand five hundred
feet of lumber were received at Milwaukee
last year, an increase of thirty three mill
ion sixty-seven thousand five hundred feet
more than in 1856. R IN "a
STATE NEWS. -
DIcKENs is to give one OF his readings in
Cleveland on the oath of February. 8, b
A CoNGREGATIoNAL church at Oberlin
proposes to oexcommunicate Freemasons.
THs official mortuary report for Cincin-
natl shows the total number of deaths in,
that city for the year 1867, to have been
1904.
Mrs. ELIZA JENNINGs, of Cleveland, has
donated ten acres of land and large
brick dwelling thereon to the Children's
Aid Society OF that city. The properly is
near the town, and very valuable.
LAST week, says the Marietta Times, Mar
shal Towsley arrested young man of that
place for uttering indecent Language on
the streets, so as to offend against public
decency. He was taken before Mayor
Knowles and fined So. The costs amount-
ed to $29O-so the offense came to $5 80
On astWednesday evening. at the Afri-
can Church Festival, held in the old Ma
sonic hall i'm Lima, a couple of darkies got
into a quarrel, which closed by one of
them drawing razor and cutting the 9TH
er across the s'bread basket" from the eff
fects of which tits doubtful ii he will re-
AT three o'clock this morning, says the
Toledo Blade, of Jan. 9Th, Milton K. Decius,
conductor on a freight train on the Dayton
and Michigan road, was run over short
distance above the D. & NJ. grain elevator,
and Instantly killed. He was engaged in
making up his train preparatory to leaving
wien the accident occurred, which cost
him his life. Mr.. Decius stepped between
a car and the approaching train for the
purpose of coupling them together, and as
he did so his left foot caught in frog,
circumstance that he does not seem to have
known until too late to extricate himself.
After compiling the cars he could not step
one side, and was pushed over backward.
falling lengthwise of the track. his head :
resting on the ground outside the rail.
The wheel of the car striking his foot run
up his left leg and the car came to a full
stop. one of the wheels resting in the body
of the unfortunate man. The left leg was
completely crushed its entire length and
the lower porti on of the body mangled in
q shocking manner.
at Upper Sandusky, on the 2lst ult., says
the Seneca Advertiser, under circumstances
that strongly indicate foul play. In order
to discover whether there were any traces
of poison in his system, his stomach was
sent to Prof. Wormley, of Columbus, for
analysis, who reports having found arsenic
in the stomach in sufficient quantity to
cause death. Upon learning the above
fact, the County Commissioner Immediate
ly ordered the bodies of the two sisters of
the deceased, who previously died with
symptoms indicating the same cause, to be
disinterred, and a similar examination
made in their cases. What makes the mat
ter more interesting is the fact that the two
latter were very agreeable and attractive
Young ladies and both engaged to be mar
ried in short time. Who administered
the poison, or from what motive, still re-
mains profound mystery, although there
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