Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-19
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS

GENEhAL NEWbs
GOLD closed in New York yesterday al
14O1S.
INCONSISTENCIES have made their appear!
ance in New York.
A NUMBER of deaths from sunstroke have
recently occurred in Paris.
GREENwooD CEMETERY, New York, con-
tains population of 129410.
JUDITH FERREGRA, the danseuse, has re-
Gently died in Paris, aged 81.
GEN. SEDGwIcK's statue at West Point
will be inaugerated on the 1st of October.
SOME of the merchants of New York
provide their clerks with pews in church.
IT is reported from Paris that Lamartine
has lost his mental faculties, and that his
death is daily expected.
IT is said that Queen Victoria will travel
in Switzerland. and the Empress Eugenia
in Norway this summer.
RHODE ISLAND must be nice little
State, with few axes to grind. The Leg
islature sat only two days.
The Journal of Chemistry gives its au-
now used in the adulteration of whisky.
The French paper-makers are offering a
prize to any one who will produce and ap-
ply in France any new material for paper
making.
A YOUNG Russian Prince, Scherbatoff,
has married lady OF seventy years. He
took her for money, and she took him to
get the title OF Princess.
STATE NEWS.
HENRY WISE, of franklin, Summit coun-
ty, recently had hams and shoulders
stolen, and to prevent repetition he so
placed gun, charged with beans, that
when the door was opened the contents
would hit the burglar. Shortly after he
was trying to catch, a goose that got into
the yard, and accidentally hit the door of
ths smoke house, springing it open, when
the gun discharged its contents in Mr.
Wise's forehead. He is at present totally
blind, and recovery is very doubtful.
The Springfield Aduertiser says: A few
nights since some villainous human enter
ed the stable of Mr.. j. 81. Lorrimer, a far
ty, and fastening the head OF fine horse
to the stall, In such a manner that he could
not move, proceeded to cut and beat him
about the head In such q manner that the
horse died. 1t was done deliberately, and
the perpetrator was no doubt actuated by
deadly malice. Our informant did not state
whether any clue to the scamp had been
received or not.
The Bryan Free Press says: Adolphus
Rogers, of Northwest township, Williams
county, was arrested last winter for keep
ing an Illicit distillery. He agreed to re-
port at Toledo before the United States
Commissioner on the Saturday following
his arrest, but instead Of 30 reporting he
went to Canada, where ne remained until
after the session of the United States Dis.
trict Court at Cleveland. Upon his return
he was arrested by United States Deputy
Marshal Fisher and taken to Cleveland TO,
trial, at the June term. Last week he re.
ceived his sentence. He was fined S4O(
and costs, which will amount to about SON
more. and sentenced to four months i'm.
prisonment in the Williams county iail
He is now in prison, having commenced
his term of service on the 9Th day of June
A RELIC was found last week on the farm
of a Mr.. Evans, some two miles iron
Bayard, on the G. & P. railway, in tn
shape of an old French bayonet whicl
must have been LETT there in 1894 by Gen
eral Anthony Wayne's army, which wa
encamped on the place. The old relic wa.
turned up by the plough. Some old ston
walls erected for the camp kettles are still
remaining. The spot is on the Wellsvill
road, which was first opened by Genera
Wayne's army. On. the 10th of August
1894, General Wayne's army encountered
the Indians at the Maumee rapids, and to
tally defeated them. The previous expe
dftions of General Harmar In 1871, and o
St. Clair In 1898, were total and disastrous
failures, but Geperal WAYNE cleaned out
the troublesome red men most effectually
So says the Stark County Democrat.