Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-04-11
News of the Day.

GENERAL NEWS.
Coin closed in New York yesterday at
1885
PARIS now imports blonde hair from
America.
CHICAGO is afflicted at finding its lake
tunnel water muddy since the opening of
spring.,
2 . THE western gold fields are expected to
yield $67 100000 this year.
FoRrY-FouR post-offices in New York
State are now conducted by women.
THE health of General Robert E. Lee is
reported to be failing.
AspHALTuM sidewalks are being laid in
Charleston, 5. G.
TIE corporation limits of Louisville have
been extended.
THE water in Lake Michigan is now five
inches lower than at any time for the past
eighteen years.
THE once famous Mrs. Bloomer, now Mrs.
Lester, is reported to be lecturing to the
Mormons.
The body of man, partially eaten by
buzzards, was found in the city park at
New Orleans a few days since.
MAD DOGS have already appeared this
season in Providence, r. l., where two OF
= them have been killed.
Iris stated that the inner edge of the
Gulf Stream, in latitude SO 30, has shifted
e 100 miles east of its former position.
A RAID was made upon fashionable
gambling house in Boston last Saturday
night, and thirty persons were captured.
AN Engiishman has paid $4,000 for the
balloon which used to make limited asecnts
from the grounds of the Paris Exposition.
WE have heard nothing more about the
Eastern question since France, England
and Austria made Representations" to the
autocrat.
. M. DfDIER, member of the Corps Legis-
latif, went crazy recently, dressed himself
mn as Grand Turk, and in that costume
mounted the tribune and made speech.
PREPARATIONS are being made on grand
scale by the colored people at Washington
for an emancipation celebration on the 10th
of April.
The Hon. James Parker, a well known
citizen of Perth Amboy, where he had
lived over 20 years, died on the 1st instant,
in the 9Sth year of his age.
THOMAS PALMER, of No. 204 River street,
Troy, was so badly poisoned recently, that
his life was despaired of, by applying in
delible ink to wound in his leg, in mis-
take for oil. ~.
By the personal intercession of the Aus
trian Empress, the Archduke Henry is al
lowed to return to Vienna with his pretty
actress bride, whose marriage with him is
to be recognized, and who will be made
baroness.
THE Lisbon journals record the death in
that city of a man, named Jose Santereno,
at the age of one hundred and thirteen.-
s He was born in 1755, the year OF the great
earthquake, which destroyed large por-
tion of the Portuguese capital.
GAR1BALp1 has written another letter. 1t
is. to Carl Blind, the German Radical, under
date of March 10, and says: ITO combat
Bonaparte is to combat the Evil one. In
my opinion, therefore, not only all Ger
many ought to Withstand him, but Italy
also. Nay the whole world ought to make
common cause against him."
A NEW York paper, discoursing on wea-
ther woes, remarks: He who dons an over
coat in the morning in these tickle days Of
spring, regrets that deed before midday
Helwho sheds that coat and leaves home
withoutit bewails his act as he shiveringly
,hurries to theoffice; and again bewails it if
he be detained abroad after nightfall. The
result Of this state of weather is catarrhal
e and bronchial to a highly pathological ex-
kout-