Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-26

GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
140. ls ~
THE cost of the Fenian trials in Canada
was $50, 500.
THERE are now 1s9 Spiritualists in the
lecturing field.
A TRorTINe Course is to be established
on Coney Island.
NEARLY 5000 barrels of eggs arrived in
New York city last week.
The Empress Eugene Is forty-two years
of age, and is still beautiful.
Russian vapor baths have been intro
duced into Westchester county, N. Y.
THE floral decorati ons at a recent fash
ionable wedding in New York cost S2OOO.
THE working men of San Francisco have
ss,OO0,OOO in the savings banks of that city.
TIE President has appointed son of
John C. Fremont to be midshipman In the
navy.
TIE AUGUSTA (Gergia) Constitutionalist
recommends Charles o'COnner, Esq, for
next President.
In Canada, judges can hereafter sentence
boys guilty of larceny to be whipped, IN
stead of imprisoned.
AT st. Albans, Vermont, on Monday, but
ter sold at thirty to thirty-five cents per
pound, mostly below the latter figure.
All. LEE, of Randolph county, Illinois,
the man who drew the Crosby Opera
House. returns an income for 1867 of S2l3,-
S31. | no
THE New York brewers, it Is stated. have
decided to advance the wholesale price OF
lager from twelve dollars to fourteen dol
lars per barrel.
No LESS than 100000 rats have been
caught in Marion county. Minn., during
the last winter. The fur trade is quite live
ly in that region.
A FLOOD on the Brazos river in Texas
has washed the crop out of the ground,
and seventeen negroes perished in the wa
ters on one plantation.
PARADISE Valley, CAL, lying between the
Tuolumne and Stanislaus rivers, contains
an almost unbroken grain field Of one hum
dred and fifty thousand acres.
A SERVANT GIRL in the employ of Rev.
j. B. johnson, of xbridge, Mass, has late
ly fallen heir to fortune of $4,000, by the
decease OF aud English relative.
A MAN in the Sandwich Islands, who
took advantage of the recent earthquake
and eruption to preach Second Adventist
doctrines, has been lodged in Jail.
THE strength of the army of the German
Bund has been reduced since the first OF
Nav to the extent of about $1,000 men, by
allowing that number to return to their
homes on leave.
A FLOWER pot, which was carelessly fas-
tened, fell from an upper story window in
New York, on Thursday, and just missed
striking the head of lady who was pass
ing along the street.
The railroad wharf at Oakland, CAL, is
extended seven thousand feet from the
shore and three thousand feet from the
point where the ferry boat lands. Only
four hundred feet remain to complete the
extension.
JAMES H. LUCAS, of st. Louis. returns an
income of $12S S96, and j. G. Copelin, a
pork merchant, foots up mis- gains in 1867
at $l32135. George Knapp, of the Repub-
hcan returns SOL $40, and John Knapp, of
the same paper, $22,177.
A RUNAWAY couple were recently dis
covered in Cincinnati by pursuing tath-
er. we'll known trunk upon hack be-
trying them. The old gentleman quietly
put the young man out OF the carriage, &c t
In himself and drove off with his daughter.
THE Shawano (Wisconsin) Jdnrndl re-
cords a wedding in high life among the
Stockbridge Indians. 1t was "brilliant
affair" Thirty-t two drunken Indians were
seen by the mail carrier on one trip lying
along The road between Shawano and Ke-
shena.