Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-28
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THE statistics of cigar manufacture show
that Great Britain aud her colonies and the
United States consume half the crop of the
world, and that Cuba produces one-thirdoi
the whole supply of the world. sl -
TIE corn crop in portions of Mississippi
has been affected by the drought. In Mary
land and Virginia there are some appre-
tensions for the same crop. In Florida
there has been little too much rain for
the cotton. e4foe srtriu
AcoNrEsr between steam engines and
the new atmospheric water-power, built in
Louisville. Kentucky, resulted in favor OF
the latter five to one. The invention gives
water-power for any locality, also for nav
igation purposes, at one-half the cost of
steam.
.sA BELGIAN journal states that meeting
was recently held in London by M. Felix
Pyat and other refugees, at which the ex-
pediency of assassinating the Emperor was
solemnly put and carried as one of the res
olutions. Is - 3. ssf..4
"A FATAL distemper, or dry murrain, is
prevailing among the cattle throughout
Georgia. Quite number OF fine milch
cows in that State have died OF 1t within the
last week or two. The disease is on the in
crease, aud in almost every instance proves
fatal. ~ sd E4Et-If5f.j
"A MAN presented fifty franc note at one
of the railroads in Paris, but the ticket
seller refused to take it, though he offered
to change thousand franc note. When
asked for an explanatian, he said he had no
bonds printed for fifty francs, and he must
have system. 7
The Troy Times says: That in the large
workshops, manufactures, foundries and
other establishments in our cities where
large numbers of journeymen and appren-
tices are employed, at least three-fourths of
the employees are foreign born, or the sons
of foreign parents. s,,...s .s.
AMONG the latest inventions is rubber
bath-tub, about three feet in diameter when
spread out, which can easily be slowed
away In lady's satchel. 1t is described
as sjust the thing" for city people who are
passing the summer at farm-houses, where
conveniences for bathing are not very good.
A HOUSE was lately burned at the cele-
brated bathing place of Vichy les Thermes,
France, and it was curious to remark the
strange mixture of assistants pressed into
the fire brigade service. The pump was
worked by duke, ten generals, several
clergymen, etc, causing much amusement.
THE King of Holland recently left fer
the lakes of Lucerne, and the day of his de-
parture was the day of the Queens arrival.
Owing to some little domestic misunder-s
standing, the King and Queen are never
seen together, which has. induced the peo-
ple to call them "the sun" and 1.-THE
noon" n 81
RECENT explorations show Northern
Minnesota to be one OF the most remarka-
BILE slate regions in the world. The slate
ridge is some twenty odd miles in length
and six in width. In one place are mounds
of slate covering large extent of terri
tory, which have the appearance of a city,
there being streets, houses and towers of
regular shape, the whole presenting most
singular and interesting appearance. At
one point in the st. Louis river is large
island of pure, workable slate, towering
above the surface of the stream to height
of seventy-ive feet.
A FRArRIcIDE was recently perpetrated
at sAnton, France, by q butchers man,
named Laumy, thirty-three years of age.7
He had undergone several condemnations
for minor offences, and on returning to his
family, his mother, a widow, dwelt with
other sons and daughters, in a house be-
longing to them all, and which they sold a
week oritwo back. AS soon as he had re-
ceiyed his share of the money he spent it
in dissipation, and on his mother reproach-
ing him, he seized her and tried to throw
her out of the window On his sister,
young woman of twenty, coming to the
mothers assistance, he snatched up knife
and plunged 1t into the girls neck, diyi-
ding the jugular vein and carotid artery,
killing her instantly. He then left the
house with great deliberation, but was ar
rested shortly after in wine shop.
STATE NEWS.
THE Ironton Journal chronicles two cases
of sunstroke, both fatal.
Coal men iu Chillicothe want to contract
to deliver during the winter at IA cents.
FARMERS in Scioto county, say the new
wheat crop is not yielding as was expected.
THE Portsmouth, Republican brags about
x,sn; init old nal thn
Marietta Register ditto's about horse in his
35th year. -------
The Netoark Advocate mentions the de-
parture of two of the citizens of Licking
county, with their families, By soagon, for
homes in the West. 1853
THE Scioto Gazette says: ''The campaign
grows exciting. The editor of the Aduer-
tiser caused an extra edition to be issued
last Saturday night. IT's A GIRL"
THE Cosbocton Age discourseth on white
wash, thus: Whitewash is all right in its
place-and it is in its place on fences and
ousbuildings; but it is not in its place on
trees, where we have seen 1t in several beau
tiflil door yards this summer. Don't try
to make the trunks of your trees look like
fence posts. e-ri- ss,.-. -z.,..
Two women. Yesterday, says the Zones
vilts Courier, 25th, found an infant few
hours old in thicket near Timber Run
Bridge. Mr.. VIM. Lee, one OF the directorsof
the County Infirmary, was notified; had the
child taken to his house, washed and dressed,
and sent to the Infrmary. The only incon-
venieuce it appeared to have suffered from
its unnatural exposure and abandonment,
was in its being slightly blistered by the