Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-10


14o5S.
THElocusts are now visiting Michigan
AprLrs now sell at $14 per barrel in New
York. r.s
A PORTION of the river at Montreal mas
been sensibly set apart for free bathing.
ArfLEs from this country sell for two
dollars in gold per dozen in Hong Kong.
The sorosis in Chicago is styled the "Or-
der of the Golden Secret"
The London Herald says, "Historicus Is q
mixture of Bright-and-water." -
SIX ladies have contributed $3.50 eacn To-
wards the election expenses of John Stuart
Mill, as candidate tor Westminster.
Ar st. Louis, last Friday, the Board of
Health seized all the ,watermelons In the
markets. \ 10 4SASS~
A GYMNAsr in Liverpool beats q drum
while banging to rope by his teeth at
height of forty feet.
Alsu1rE Of rooms in one of the saratoga
hotels rents forS3O0 per week, and is taken
for the season.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred in Bremen,
June 22d, and ragged for eight hours. The
damage will exceed 100000 thalers.
BRUSSELS is about to make trial Of the
American street railway system, with good
prospects of success.
SIX liberal journals have just been start
ed in the departments of France, aud one
of them at Lyons bears the bold title
"L'Avenir Democratique," or the Demo-
cratic Future. - jsft ~ - ~
HARDIN COUNTY, ILL, has discovered an
extensive deposit of that rare mineral fuor
spar, the only one known to exist west OF
the Alleghanies.
Rev. J.H. GuLLIvER, D. D., pastor Of
the New En- gland Church in Chicago. has
been elected President of Knox College,
Galesburg, Illinois, vice DR.. Curtis, re-
signed.
THE trustees Of the Missouri State, Uni-s
versity, finding that the students cannot
obtain suitable lodgings at reasonable.
price, and disliking the old system of large
college dormitories, have ordered the erec-
ton of cottages containing four or five
rooms each for the accommodation of the
young men.
The Cheyenne Ledger states that the Union
Pacific Railroad is about to erect hotels,
ranging in cost from fifteen to fifty thou
sand dollars at Cheyenne, Laramie, North
Platte, and Green River, for the accom-
m,dation and comfort of passengers, in
the event of being delayed or desiring to
rest at any time while making the journey
across the Plains by this route. = ! u
A CURIOUS accident happened at a ba-
ker's shop, in Newton, England, recently.
A flock Of sheep was going through the
street, when one of them ran into the shop.
The door of the oven, which was heated at
the time, was open, the sheep ran into 1t,
and before it could be got out was so much
burnt that it had to be Immediately slaugh.
tered. y seB ns ssis7nes ascs Es1
On the morning of the 1st inst, freight
train on the Western Maryland Railrord,
approaching Baltimore, broke through
bridge about two miles above the Relay
House. The locomotive and two cars went
into the stream and the engineer was killed.
No one else was injured. The bridge had
just been completed, and it is supposed that
the shrinking of the timbers caused one
end to slip from its supports. ~
y n STATE NEWS. y ~ x
THE time of holding the fair at WASH
ington, Guernsey county, has been changed
by order of the board from September 25th
to October 1st and ID.
The first wheat raised in Ohio was at
Marietta, by Truman Guthrie, who arrived
there July 81, 17Ss, put in half an acre,
and harvested the crop In 1883. &.
The Sandusky Register of July 9Th says:
On Monday night last Ed. Zurnorst, of this
city, SWAN from the foot of Columbus ave-
nue. across the Bay to Johnson's Island
distance three and 6ne-fourth miles-in
'.duck of man." sStS-d itp 81 80
A GENTLEMAN in Greenwich township,
Huron county, has just received from
abroad monster ACCORDION, made in
Prussia to his order, the dimensions being,
height, % inches when closed, and 81
feet when opened, width 10 inches, ca
pacity over 300 more reeds than q six oc-
tavO organ.
Mrs. T. e. FAY, of Shelby, accidentally
shot herself in the right hand and wrist,
causing avery dangeroue wound. Her life
is almost disparred Of She was in the act
of loading a revolver to shoot q chicken, as
she has been frequently in the habit of
doing, when premature explosion Of the
charge, caused the injury. So says the
RiciIdnd Shield and Banser. z eEE
An owl measuring four feet and six inch
es from tip to tip of wing. was caught on
Charles Pittenger's farm, about i've miles
north of Mansfield. near the County In
firmary, on the 4th of July, says the Rich
land Shield aud Banner. Il was first caught
In d steel trap on the 18th of June, but dis
appeared and was not discovered until the
4th of July, about half mile from where
it was caught, when it was secured with
the trap and chain hanging to it. 1t weighs
from ~ W ~ ssgzzsaz.asz.sss
THE Bncyrus Journal says On Sunday
evening, w. p. Warden, Esq, of North
Robinson, while attempting TO- get on the
freigh. train, moving at the rate of twelve
DR. fourteen miles an hoar, was thrown un-
Ter the hind car, which passed over his left
eg. DIR. A. e. Jenners of Crestline, was
sent Tof,. and found the leg SO severely
crushed as torender amputation necessary,
md the leg was taken OF By DR.. J. just be- !
ow the knee, in very skillful manner. At
atest, accounts, Mr. Warden had some-s
what rallied from the shock andwas doing
a vorably.